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Drumhead surface states that link together loops of nodal lines arise in Dirac nodal-line semimetals as a consequence of the topologically non-trivial band crossings. We used low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and…

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

In this paper, we investigate the quasiparticle scattering interference(QPI) in the nematic phase of iron pnictides, based on the magnetic and orbital scenarios of nematicity, respectively. In the spin density wave(SDW) state, the QPI…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-13 Hai-Yang Zhang , Jian-Xin Li

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

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

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) by means of scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS), angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and multi-orbital tight bind- ing calculations are used to investigate the band structure…

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

Spatially periodic modulations of the superconducting gap have been recently reported in diverse materials and are often attributed to pair density wave order. An alternative mechanism, termed pair-breaking scattering interference (PBSI),…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-19 Matthew Toole , Nileema Sharma , James McKenzie , Fangjun Cheng , Sheng Ran , Xiaolong Liu

We study impurity scattering in the normal and d-wave superconducting states of line nodal semimetals and show that, due to additional scattering phase space available for impurities on the surface, the quasiparticle interference pattern…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-03 Chandan Setty , Philip W. Phillips , Awadhesh Narayan

We perform large-scale numerical calculations self-consistently solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations in the magnetic field together with random impurities to directly demonstrate the typical quasi-particle interference (QPI) in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-03-23 Yuki Nagai , Noriyuki Nakai , Masahiko Machida

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

In this paper we explore the behavior of the quasi-particle interference pattern (QPI) of scanning tunneling microscopy as a function of temperature, $T$. After insuring a minimal consistency with photoemission, we find that the QPI pattern…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-19 Dan Wulin , Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien , Dirk K. Morr , K. Levin

Recently, the topological classification of electronic states has been extended to a new class of matter known as topological crystalline insulators. Similar to topological insulators, topological crystalline insulators also have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-04 Duming Zhang , Hongwoo Baek , Jeonghoon Ha , Tong Zhang , Jonathan E. Wyrick , Albert V. Davydov , Young Kuk , Joseph A. Stroscio

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

The effect of quasi-particle (QP) 'scattering' by the vortex lattice on the de-Haas van-Alphen oscillations in a pure type-II superconductor is investigated within mean field,asymptotic perturbation theory. Using a 2D electron gas model it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 V. N. Zhuravlev , T. Maniv , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

The superconducting order parameter is directly related to the pairing interaction, with the amplitude determined by the interaction strength, while the phase reflects the spatial structure of the interaction. However, given the large…

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

If strong electron-electron interactions between neighboring Fe atoms mediate the Cooper pairing in iron-pnictide superconductors, then specific and distinct anisotropic superconducting energy gaps \Delta_i(k) should appear on the different…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-14 M. P. Allan , A. W. Rost , A. P. Mackenzie , Yang Xie , J. C. Davis , K. Kihou , C. H. Lee , A. Iyo , H. Eisaki , T. -M. Chuang

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…

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

We propose that the energy-dependent spatial modulation of the local density of states seen by Hoffman, et al [hoff2] is due to the scattering interference of quasiparticles. In this paper we present the general theoretical basis for such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Qiang-Hua Wang , Dung-Hai Lee