Fig. 2. The effect of lattice symmetry in locking short-range static charge order.
a Static charge order (CO) structure showing well-defined peaks locked along qx and qy. b Dynamic charge correlations showing the ring-like structure. c Scattering intensity at = qCO obtained from (a) and (b), and normalized to their respective averages. The error bars in (c) represent the systematic errors associated with the experiment (see Supplementary Note 2). d Schematic of CO fluctuations: static short-range CO domains are allowed to dynamically fluctuate into any in-plane direction.