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Quasiparticle interference has been used frequently for the purpose of unraveling the electronic states in the vicinity of the Fermi level as well as the nature of superconducting gap in the unconventional superconductors. Using the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-04 Garima Goyal , Dheeraj Kumar Singh

We revisit the interpretation of quasiparticle scattering interference in cuprate high-$T_c$ superconductors. This phenomenon has been very successful in reconstructing the dispersions of d-wave Bogoliubov excitations, but the successful…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-18 Miguel Antonio Sulangi , Milan P. Allan , Jan Zaanen

Phase-sensitive measurements of the superconducting gap in Fe-based superconductors have proven more difficult than originally anticipated. While quasiparticle interference (QPI) measurements based on scanning tunneling spectroscopy are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-21 P. J. Hirschfeld , D. Altenfeld , I. Eremin , I. I. Mazin

The quasiparticle states around a nonmagnetic impurity in electron-doped iron-based superconductors with spin-density-wave (SDW) order are investigated as a function of doping and impurity scattering strength. In the undoped sample, where a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-06-07 Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , Yi Gao , Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

We compute the (0-11) surface spectral function, the surface density of states (DOS), and the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns, both in the normal state and superconducting (SC) state of UTe$_2$. We consider all possible non-chiral…

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) obtained from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a powerful method to help extract the pairing symmetry of unconventional superconductors. We examine the general properties of QPI on surfaces of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-18 Hans Christiansen , Brian M. Andersen , P. J. Hirschfeld , Andreas Kreisel

We investigate the role of gap characteristics such as anisotropy and inequality of the gaps in the quasiparticle interferences of iron pnictides using a five-orbital tight-binding model. We examine how the difference in the sensitivities…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-18 Dheeraj Kumar Singh

Drumhead surface states that link together loops of nodal lines arise in Dirac nodal-line semimetals as a consequence of the topologically non-trivial band crossings. We used low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and…

We show that quasiparticle interference (QPI) due to omnipresent weak impurities and probed by Fourier transform scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy acts as a direct experimental probe of bulk odd-frequency superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-11 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study impurity scattering in the normal and d-wave superconducting states of line nodal semimetals and show that, due to additional scattering phase space available for impurities on the surface, the quasiparticle interference pattern…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-03 Chandan Setty , Philip W. Phillips , Awadhesh Narayan

Recent observations of two nodeless gaps in superconducting CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ have raised intensive debates as to its exact gap structure of either sign-reversal ($s^{+-}$) or sign-preserving ($s^{++}$) pairing. Here we investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-06 Shan Zhao , Bin Liu , Yi-feng Yang , Shiping Feng

We perform large-scale numerical calculations self-consistently solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations in the magnetic field together with random impurities to directly demonstrate the typical quasi-particle interference (QPI) in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-03-23 Yuki Nagai , Noriyuki Nakai , Masahiko Machida

We investigate the impurity scattering induced quasiparticle interference in the ($\pi, 0$) spin-density wave phase of the iron pnictides. We use a five orbital tight binding model and our mean field theory in the clean limit captures key…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-14 Dheeraj Kumar Singh , Pinaki Majumdar

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) of the electronic states has been widely applied in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to analyze the electronic band structure of materials. Single-defect induced QPI reveals defect-dependent interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-08 Wenhao Zhang , Kunliang Bu , Fangzhou Ai , Zongxiu Wu , Ying Fei , Yuan Zheng , Jianhua Du , Minghu Fang , Yi Yin

We develop the full t-matrix theory of quasiparticle interference (QPI) for non-centrosymmetric (NCS) superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We give a closed solution for the QPI spectrum for arbitrary combination and strength of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-04 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier

The quasiparticle scattering interference (QSI) is intimately related to the nature of the quasiparticle and of its interplay with a variety of electronic orders and superconductivity. Here starting from the microscopic octet scattering…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-31 Minghuan Zeng , Xiang Li , Yongjun Wang , Shiping Feng

The quasiparticle interference (QPI) in Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ is theoretically studied based on two different pairing models in order to propose an experimental method to test them. For a recently proposed two-dimensional model with pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-25 Yi Gao , Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , C. S. Ting , Peiqing Tong , Qiang-Hua Wang

The quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns in BiS$_{2}$-based superconductors are theoretically investigated by taking into account the spin-orbital coupling and assuming the recently proposed $d^{*}_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$-wave pairing symmetry.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Yi Gao , Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , Peiqing Tong , Qiang-Hua Wang

In many unconventional superconductors, the pairing of electrons is driven by the repulsive interaction, which leads to the sign reversal of superconducting gaps along the Fermi surfaces (FS) or between them. However, to measure this sign…

We propose a way to determine the pairing state of the iron pnictide superconductors exploiting the momentum (Q) scan of the neutron scattering data. We investigate the spin susceptibility in the s+- and s++ superconducting states for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-29 Yuki Nagai , Kazuhiko Kuroki