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The diagrammatic approach is applied to study quasiparticle transport properties in two-dimensional d-wave superconductors with dilute nonmagnetic impurities both in Born and in unitary limits. It is found that a novel quantum interference…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. H. Yang , D. Y. Xing , M. Liu , Y. G. Wang

It is usually argued that the presence of gapless quasiparticle excitations at the nodes of the d-wave superconducting gap should strongly decohere the quantum states of a d-wave qubit, making quantum effects practically unobservable. Using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. S. Amin , A. Yu. Smirnov

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

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 interferences (QPIs) of a Mott insulator are investigated using the $T$-matrix formalism implemented with the dynamical mean-field theory ($T$-DMFT). In Mott insulating state, because DMFT predicts a singularity in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-07 Shantanu Mukherjee , Wei-Cheng Lee

Recent experiments on single crystals of YNi$_2$B$_2$C have revealed the presence of point nodes in the superconducting energy gap Delta(k} at k = (1,0,0), (0,1,0), (-1,0,0), and (0,-1,0). In this paper we investigate the effects of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazumi Maki , Hyekyung Won , Stephan Haas

We determine the effect of quasiparticle interference on the spatial variations of the local density of states (LDOS) in graphite in the neighborhood of an isolated impurity. A number of characteristic behaviors of interference are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristina Bena , Steven A. Kivelson

We present scanning tunneling spectroscopic and high-field thermodynamic studies of hole- and electron-doped (p- and n-type) cuprate superconductors. Our experimental results are consistent with the notion that the ground state of cuprates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 N. -C. Yeh , C. -T. Chen , V. S. Zapf , A. D. Beyer , C. R. Hughes , M. -S. Park , K. -H. Kim , S. -I. Lee

The influence of the interference of electron waves, which were scattered by single impurities, on nonlinear quantum conductance of metallic microconstrictions (as was recently investigated experimentally) is studied theoretically. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Namiranian , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , A. N. Omelyanchouk

In the kagome superconductors AV3Sb5 (A=Cs,Rb,K), a cascade of correlated electron phases cause exotic symmetry-breaking quantum states. In particular, the dissipationless chiral loop-current phase has been attracting increasing attention.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-04 Seigo Nakazawa , Rina Tazai , Youichi Yamakawa , Seiichiro Onari , Hiroshi Kontani

Superconducting circuits have attracted growing interest in recent years as a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Extensive efforts have always been taken to completely shield these circuits from external…

A magnetic atomic impurity inside a superconductor locally distorts superconductivity. They scatter Cooper pairs as a potential with broken time-reversal symmetry, what leads to localized bound states with subgap excitation energies, named…

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of the high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d reveals weak, incommensurate, spatial modulations in the tunneling conductance. Images of these energy-dependent modulations are Fourier analyzed to yield the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. Hoffman , K. McElroy , D. -H. Lee , K. M Lang , H. Eisaki , S. Uchida , J. C. Davis

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

Recently reported quasiparticle interference imaging in underdoped Ca(Fe{1-x}Co{x})_2As{2} shows pronounced C{2} asymmetry that is interpreted as an indication of an electronic nematic phase with a unidirectional electron band, dispersive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-10 I. I. Mazin , Simon A. J. Kimber , Dimitri N. Argyriou

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

We study systems of multiple interacting quantum impurities deposited on a metallic surface in a 3D host. For the real-space two-impurity problem, using numerical renormalization group calculations, a rich range of behavior is shown to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrew K. Mitchell , Philip G. Derry , David E. Logan

We study quasiparticle interference (QPI) in the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) for electrons tunneling into the QSL. The local tunneling conductance around a spin vacancy or localized vison reveals unique features associated with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-28 Ammar Jahin , Hao Zhang , Gábor B. Halász , Shi-Zeng Lin

The cuprate high-temperature superconductors are known to host a wide array of effects due to interactions and disorder. In this work, we look at some of the consequences of these effects which can be visualized by scanning tunneling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-02 Miguel Antonio Sulangi , Jan Zaanen

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