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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

Thermal conductivity and specific heat were measured in the superconducting state of the heavy fermion material Ce_{1-x}La_{x}CoIn_{5}. With increasing impurity concentration x, the suppression of T_{c} is accompanied by the increase in the…

Neutron scattering is used to probe antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in the d-wave heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_{5}$ (T$_{c}$=2.3 K). Superconductivity develops from a state with slow ($\hbar\Gamma$=0.3 $\pm$ 0.15 meV)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Stock , C. Broholm , J. Hudis , H. J. Kang , C. Petrovic

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…

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

According to [M.A. Tanatar et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 067002 (2005)], in a multi-band d-wave superconductor CeCoIn5 electrons remain partially uncondensed. Interactions must induce superconducting order on all Fermi surfaces. We calculate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-08-20 Victor Barzykin , L. P. Gor'kov

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 employ a five-orbital tight-binding model to develop the mean field solution for various possible spin density wave states in the iron-chalcogenides. The quasiparticle interference (QPI) technique is applied to detect signatures of these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-09 Bhaskar Kamble , Alireza Akbari , Ilya Eremin

Recent experiments on CeCoIn5 -- a prototypical d-wave superconductor -- indicate that its normal state lies near an unconventional quantum critical point (QCP). One intriguing hypothesis is that quantum-critical fluctuations promote…

Based on the possible superconducting (SC) pairing symmetries recently proposed, the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns in electron- and hole-doped Sr$_{2}$IrO$_{4}$ are theoretically investigated. In the electron-doped case, the QPI…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-20 Yi Gao , Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , Qiang-Hua Wang

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…

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

The superconducting state is achieved by the condensation of Cooper pairs and is protected by the superconducting gap. The pairing interaction between the two electrons of a Cooper pair determines the superconducting gap function. Thus, it…

3D Dirac semimetals are an emerging class of materials that possess topological electronic states with a Dirac dispersion in their bulk. In nodal-line Dirac semimetals, the conductance and valence bands connect along a closed path in…

The superconducting order parameter of the first heavy-fermion superconductor CeCu2Si2 is currently under debate. A key ingredient to understand its superconductivity and physical properties is the quasiparticle dispersion and Fermi…

We present scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements of the local quasiparticles' excitation spectra of CeCoIn$_5$ between 440mK and 3K in samples with a bulk $T_{\rm c}=2.25$K. The spectral shape of our low-temperature tunneling data,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-14 Y. Fasano , P. Szabó , J. Kačmarčík , Z. Pribulová , P. Pedrazzini , P. Samuely , V. F. Correa

We study quantum interference of electronic waves that are scattered by multiple non-magnetic impurities in a d_x2-y2-wave superconductor. We show that the number of resonance states in the density-of-states (DOS), as well as their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Dirk K. Morr , Nikolaos A. Stavropoulos

The nature of the pairing symmetry of the first heavy fermion superconductor CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ has recently become the subject of controversy. While CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ was generally believed to be a $d$-wave superconductor, recent low temperature…

High-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity is ubiquitous in the cuprates containing CuO2 planes but each cuprate has its own character. The study of the material dependence of the d-wave superconducting gap (SG) should provide…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Hanaguri , Y. Kohsaka , J. C. Davis , C. Lupien , I. Yamada , M. Azuma , M. Takano , K. Ohishi , M. Ono , H. Takagi

We study how nonsymmorphic symmetries that commute with lattice translations are reflected in the quasiparticle interference (QPI) maps measured by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). QPI maps, which result from scattering of Bloch states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Raquel Queiroz , Ady Stern