%0 Journal Article %T Electronic structure and string tension of stripes in high-Tc superconductors %A Marcus Fleck %A Eva Pavarini %A Ole Krogh Andersen %J Physics %D 2001 %I arXiv %X We present a simple, material-specific model Hamiltonian for stripes and use it to explain the observed differences between the angle-resolved photoemission spectra of La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO4 and Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+x), e.g, along the nodal line and around (3pi/4,0). Next we compute the string tension for stripes and find it to be smallest in the materials with the highest observed Tc,max. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102041v1