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Spectroscopy of vortex bound states can provide valuable information on the structure of the superconducting order parameter. Quasiparticle wavefunctions are expected to leak out in the directions of gap minima or nodes, if they exist, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-25 Y. Wang , P. J. Hirschfeld , I. Vekhter

We develop a theory of the local density of states (LDOS) of disordered superconductors, employing the non-linear sigma-model formalism and the renormalization-group framework. The theory takes into account the interplay of disorder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 I. S. Burmistrov , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

The quasiparticle local density of states (LDOS) is studied in clean NS and SNS junctions with increasing transverse size, from quasi-one-dimensional to three-dimensional. It is shown that finite transverse dimensions are related to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Blaauboer , R. T. W. Koperdraad , A. Lodder , D. Lenstra

An isolated single vortex is considered within the framework of the quasiclassical theory. The local density of states around a vortex is calculated in a clean type II superconductor with an anisotropy. The anisotropy of a superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Hayashi , M. Ichioka , K. Machida

Electronic band structures underlie the physical properties of crystalline materials, their geometrical exploration renovates the conventional cognition and brings about novel applications. Inspired by geometry phases, we introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Shu-Hui Zhang , Jin Yang , Ding-Fu Shao , Jia-Ji Zhu , Wen Yang , Kai Chang

Exciton Scattering (ES) theory attributes excited electronic states to standing waves in quasi-one-dimensional molecular materials by assuming a quasi-particle picture of optical excitations. The quasi-particle properties at branching…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Michael J. Catanzaro , Tian Shi , Sergei Tretiak , Vladimir Y. Chernyak

We consider an electron interacting locally with two-level systems (TLSs) as an archetypal model for charge transport in the presence of inelastic scatterers. To assess the importance of quantum effects in the optical and d.c. conductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Hadi Rammal , Sergio Ciuchi , Simone Fratini

Using high speed scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we perform a full mapping of the quasiparticle density of states (DOS) in single crystals of BiPbSrCaCuO(2212). The measurements carried out at 5 K showed a complex spatial pattern of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Cren , D. Roditchev , W. Sacks , J. Klein

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a notoriously slow technique; Data-recording is serial which renders complex measurement tasks, such as quasiparticle interference (QPI) mapping, impractical. However, QPI would provide insight into…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-06 Jens Oppliger , Fabian Donat Natterer

The local density of states (LDOS) is a distribution that characterizes the effect of perturbations on quantum systems. Recently, it was proposed a semiclassical theory for the LDOS of chaotic billiards and maps. This theory predicts that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Darío E. Bullo , Diego A. Wisniacki

Local density of states (LDOS) in the triangular vortex lattice is investigated based on the quasi-classical Eilenberger theory. We consider the case of an isotropic s-wave superconductor with the material parameter appropriate to NbSe_2.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Masanori Ichioka , Nobuhiko Hayashi , Kazushige Machida

We analyze the effects of the electronic coupling to bosonic modes in a d-wave superconductor. The role of the scattering due to boson on the momentum transfer between electronic states in the Brilloine zone is addressed. We consider…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian-Xin Zhu , A. V. Balatsky , T. P. Devereaux , Qimiao Si , J. Lee , K. McElroy , J. C. Davis

In this paper we analyze, using scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), the local density of electronic states (LDOS) in nearly optimally doped BSCCO in zero field. We see both dispersive and non-dispersive spatial LDOS modulations as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fang , C. Howald , N. Kaneko , M. Greven , A. Kapitulnik

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) serves as a powerful pictorial tool for visualizing the local density of states (LDOS) of an individual stripe, which strongly intertwines with superconductivity in the underdoped cuprates. The exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-27 Ying Liang , Yi-Da Chu , Shi-Jie Hu , Xue-Feng Zhang

We investigate quasiparticle interference on an altermagnetic Lieb-like lattice and show how a non-spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy measurement can yield effectively spin-resolved information. Within a four-site tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-15 Eric Petermann , Kristian Mæland , Björn Trauzettel

We present experimental evidence for the different mechanisms driving the fluctuations of the local density of states (LDOS) in disordered photonic systems. We establish a clear link between the microscopic structure of the material and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-02 F. Riboli , F. Uccheddu , G. Monaco , N. Caselli , F. Intonti , M. Gurioli , S. E. Skipetrov

We present a numerical study of the quasi-particle density of states (DoS) of two-dimensional d-wave superconductors in the presence of disorder, focusing on the influence of the range of the disorder. We find qualitatively different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bodo Huckestein , Alexander Altland

Using a dual-mode STM-AFM microscope operating below 50mK we measured the Local Density of States (LDoS) along small normal wires connected at both ends to superconductors with different phases. We observe that a uniform minigap can develop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. Le Sueur , P. Joyez , H. Pothier , C. Urbina , D. Esteve

The atomic and electronic structures of ErAs nanoparticles embedded within a GaAs matrix are examined via cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (XSTM/XSTS). The local density of states (LDOS) exhibits a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-13 Jason K. Kawasaki , Rainer Timm , Kris T. Delaney , Edvin Lundgren , Anders Mikkelsen , Chris J. Palmstrøm

The surface tunneling microscope (STM) method probes the itinerant conduction electron spectrum which is influenced by the presence of collective order parameters. It may in fact be used as a tool to obtain important information about their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier