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Quasi-particle interference (QPI) is a powerful tool to characterize the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in unconventional superconductors, by mapping the spatial dependence of elastic tunneling of electrons between the tip…

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

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

Quasiparticle interference imaging (QPI) provides a route to characterize electronic structure from real space images acquired using scanning tunneling microscopy. It emerges due to scattering of electrons at defects in the material. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-12 Peter Wahl , Luke C. Rhodes , Carolina A. Marques

Quasiparticle Interference (QPI) imaging is a powerful tool for the study of the low energy electronic structure of quantum materials. However, the measurement of QPI by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is restricted to surfaces and is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-15 Luke C. Rhodes , Weronika Osmolska , Carolina A. Marques , Peter Wahl

Quasiparticle interference patterns measured by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can be used to study the local electronic structure of metal surfaces and high temperature superconductors. Here, we show that even in non-magnetic systems…

We systematically calculate quasiparticle interference (QPI) signatures for the whole phase diagram of iron-based superconductors. Impurities inherent in the sample together with ordered phases lead to distinct features in the QPI images…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Akbari , J. Knolle , I. Eremin , R. Moessner

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) in spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy provides a powerful method to detect orbital band structures and orbital ordering patterns in transition metal oxides. We use the $T$-matrix formalism…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-05 Wei-Cheng Lee , D. P. Arovas , Congjun Wu

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 investigate the temperature dependence of quasiparticle interference in the high $T_c$-cuprates using an Exact-Diagonalization + Monte-Carlo based scheme to simulate the $d$-wave superconducting order parameter. The quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-19 Harun Al Rashid , Garima Goyal , Alireza Akbari , Dheeraj Kumar Singh

A method is proposed to test for the nature of the pseudogap phase in cuprates using the recently developed technique of Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We show that the observed quasiparticle interference patterns depend…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Pereg-Barnea , M. Franz

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

The quasiparticle interference of the spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy has been investigated for the surface states of the large gap topological insulator Bi$_2$Te$_3$ through the T-matrix formalism. Both the scalar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Wei-Cheng Lee , Congjun Wu , Daniel P. Arovas , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Using both two orbital and five orbital models, we investigate the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns in the superconducting (SC) state of iron-based superconductors. We compare the results for nonmagnetic and magnetic impurities in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Yan-Yang Zhang , Chen Fang , Xiaoting Zhou , Kangjun Seo , Wei-Feng Tsai , B. Andrei Bernevig , Jiangping Hu

We develop a theory of the quasiparticle interference (QPI) in multiband superconductors based on strong-coupling Eliashberg approach within the Born approximation. In the framework of this theory, we study dependencies of the QPI response…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Dutt , A. A. Golubov , O. V. Dolgov , D. V. Efremov

We present angle resolved photoemission experiments and scanning tunneling spectroscopy results on the doped topological insulator Cu0.2Bi2Te3. Quasi-particle interference (QPI) measurements, based on high resolution conductance maps of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 E. van Heumen , G. A. R. van Dalum , J. Kaas , N. de Jong , J. Oen , Y. K. Huang , A. K. Mitchell , L. Fritz , M. S. Golden

The quasiparticle interference (QPI) technique is a powerful tool that allows to uncover the structure and properties of electronic structure of a material combined with scattering properties of defects at surfaces. Recently this technique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Philipp Rüßmann , Phivos Mavropoulos , Stefan Blügel

Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FT-STS), or quasiparticle interference (QPI), has become an influential tool for the study of a wide range of important materials in condensed matter physics. However, FT-STS in complex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 A J Macdonald , Y-S Tremblay-Johnston , S Grothe , S Chi , P Dosanjh , S Johnston , S A Burke

A physical system exposes to us in a real space, while its description often refers to its reciprocal momentum space. A connection between them can be established by exploring patterns of quasiparticles interference (QPI), which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Dan-Bo Zhang , Qiang Han , Z. D. Wang

We investigate the quasiparticle interference in the heavy Fermion superconductor CeCoIn_5 as direct method to confirm the d-wave gap symmetry. The ambiguity between d_{xy} and d_{x^2-y^2} symmetry remaining from earlier specific heat and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-06 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier , Ilya Eremin
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