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Impurities act as in situ probes of nontrivial electronic structure, causing real-space modulations in the density of states detected by scanning tunneling spectroscopy on the sample surface. We show that distinctive topological features of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrew K. Mitchell , Lars Fritz

Topological superconductors, such as noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, exhibit protected zero-energy surface states, which possess an intricate helical spin structure. We show that this nontrival spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-10 Johannes S. Hofmann , Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

We show that characteristics of the electron's form factor in two-dimensional materials are observable in quasiparticle interference (QPI) spectrum. We study QPI in twisted bilayer graphene using real-space tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Francisco Guinea , Dario Bercioux

We study the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns caused by scattering off nonmagnetic, magnetic point impurities, and edge impurities, separately, in a two dimensional helical liquid, which describes the surface states of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiaoting Zhou , Chen Fang , Wei-Feng Tsai , Jiangping Hu

Chiral fermions in solid state feature "Fermi arc" states, connecting the surface projections of the bulk chiral nodes. The surface Fermi arc is a signature of nontrivial bulk topology. Unconventional chiral fermions with an extensive Fermi…

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

We examine the response of the Fermi arc in the context of quasi-particle interference (QPI) with regard to a localized surface impurity on various three-dimensional Weyl semimetals (WSMs). Our study also reveals the variation of the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Feng Xiong , Chaocheng He , Yong Liu , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Tanay Nag

Identifying the pairing symmetry in unconventional superconductors is essential for reliably characterizing their superconducting states and for enabling their integration into realistic quantum devices. Here, we introduce a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-24 Adam Hložný , Jozef Haniš , Martin Gmitra , Marko Milivojević

Resonant X-ray scattering (RXS) has recently become an increasingly important tool for the study of ordering phenomena in correlated electron systems. Yet, the interpretation of the RXS experiments remains theoretically challenging due to…

Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FT-STS) measures the scattering of conduction electrons from impurities and defects, giving information about the electronic structure of both the host material and adsorbed impurities. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 Philip G. Derry , Andrew K. Mitchell , David E. Logan

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

Quasiparticle interference in a d-wave superconductor with weak disorder produces distinctive peaks in the Fourier-transformed local density of states measured by scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We predict that amplitudes of these peaks…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Pereg-Barnea , M. Franz

Impurity bound states and quasi-particle scattering from these can serve as sensitive probes for identifying the pairing state of a superconducting condensate. We introduce and discuss defect bound state quasi-particle interference…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-26 Shun Chi , W. N. Hardy , Ruixing Liang , P. Dosanjh , Peter Wahl , S. A. Burke , D. A. Bonn

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) imaging is a powerful tool for probing electronic structures in quantum materials, but extracting the single-scatterer QPI pattern (i.e., the kernel) from a multi-scatterer image remains a fundamentally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yingshuai Ji , Haomin Zhuang , Matthew Toole , James McKenzie , Xiaolong Liu , Xiangliang Zhang

We present a phenomenological calculation of the quasiparticle-interference (QPI) pattern and inelastic Neutron scattering (INS) spectra in iron-pnictide and layered iron-selenide compounds by using materials specific band-structure and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-24 Tanmoy Das , A. V. Balatsky

Tunneling spectroscopy of superconductors provides valuable insights into gap symmetry, quasiparticle dynamics, and pairing mechanisms. This paper explores spatial patterns of quasiparticle interference in the tunneling density of states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-21 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Leonid Levitov

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

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 recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in both bulk and thin-film bilayer nickelates has garnered significant attention. In this study, inspired by recent STM experiments on thin films, we investigate the quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-17 Zhongyi Zhang , Jun Zhan , Congcong Le , Hoi Chun Po , Jiangping Hu , Xianxin Wu

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) provides a wealth of information relating to the electronic structure of a material. However, it is often assumed that this information is constrained to two-dimensional electronic states. Here, we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-27 Luke C. Rhodes , Matthew D. Watson , Timur K. Kim , Matthias Eschrig