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We show that quasiparticle interference (QPI) due to omnipresent weak impurities and probed by Fourier transform scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy acts as a direct experimental probe of bulk odd-frequency superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-11 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy has been used to reveal signatures of a bosonic mode in the local quasiparticle density of states of superconducting FeSe films. The mode appears below Tc as a 'dip-hump' feature at energy \Omega ~ 4.7 kBTc…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-11 Can-Li Song , Yi-Lin Wang , Ye-Ping Jiang , Zhi Li , Lili Wang , Ke He , Xi Chen , Jennifer E Hoffman , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue

Identifying thermodynamic signatures of electronic phases, such as superconductivity, is challenging in low-dimensional materials due to strong fluctuations and low probing volume. Spectroscopic methods are often used to identify new bulk…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-15 Xu Chen , Yuanjie Sun , Eugen Hruska , Vivek Dixit , Jinming Yang , Yu He , Yao Wang , Fang Liu

The miniaturization of semiconductor devices to the scales where small numbers of dopants can control device properties requires the development of new techniques capable of characterizing their dynamics. Investigating single dopants…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Mohammad Rashidi , Wyatt Vine , Jacob A. J. Burgess , Marco Taucer , Roshan Achal , Jason L. Pitters , Sebastian Loth , Robert A. Wolkow

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

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) can probe the inelastic spin excitations of single magnetic atoms in a surface via spin-flip assisted tunneling. A particular and intriguing case is the Mn dimer case. We show here that the existing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a powerful local probe of correlated electronic states. Here we present a group theoretical framework for the analysis of STM data, filtering STM images into components which provide a real space…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-15 Julian Ingham , Yu-Xiao Jiang , M. Zahid Hasan , Harley D. Scammell

The quest to understand correlated electronic systems has pushed the frontiers of experimental measurements toward the development of new experimental techniques and methodologies. Here we use a novel home-built uniaxial-strain device…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-30 Mariam Kavai , Ioannis Giannakis , Justin Leshen , Joel Friedman , Pawel Zajdel , Pegor Aynajian

We present the synthesis and the tunneling spectroscopy study of superconducting FeSe0.5Te0.5 (Tc = 14 K), SmFeAsO0.85 (Tc = 45 K) and SmFeAsO0.9F0.1 (Tc = 52 K). The samples were characterized by Rietveld refinement of X-ray diffraction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. Noat , T. Cren , V. Dubost , S. Lange , F. Debontridder , J. Marcus , P. Toulemonde , W. Sacks , D. Roditchev

We propose that anisotropic $p$-, $d$-, or $f$-wave pairing symmetries can be distinguished from a tunneling spectroscopy in the presence of magnetic fields, which is exemplified here for a model organic superconductor ${(TMTSF)}_{2}X$. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Tanuma , K. Kuroki , Y. Tanaka , R. Arita , S. Kashiwaya , H. Aoki

On the spin-valve-like ferromagnet/spin glass/ferromagnet (FM/SG/FM) structure, the tunneling current is dominated by resistance switch (RS) instead of the local density of states according to the conventional tunneling theory. Here we show…

We present very low temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STM/S) measurements in W-based amorphous superconducting nanodeposits grown using a metal-organic precursor and focused-ion-beam. The superconducting gap…

In the presence of an external magnetic field, the low lying elementary excitations of a d-wave superconductor have quantized energy and their momenta are locked near the node direction. It is argued that these discrete states can most…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Boldizsar Janko

This study explores the application of Convolutional Autoencoders (CAEs) for analyzing and reconstructing Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) images of various crystalline lattice structures. We developed two distinct CAE architectures to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Peter Binev , Joshua Moorehead , Ayush Parambath , Luke Parrella , Rori Pumphrey , Miruna Savu

It is shown that the local density of states (LDOS), measured in an Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) experiment, at a single tip position contains oscillations as a function of Energy, due to quasiparticle interference, which is related…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Sumiran Pujari , C. L. Henley

The properties of iron-based superconductors (Fe-SCs) can be varied dramatically with the introduction of dopants and atomic defects. As a pressing example, FeSe, parent phase of the highest-$T_c$ Fe-SC, exhibits prevalent defects with…

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) has revolutionized our atomic scale understanding of surfaces and accelerated progress in nanotechnology. This technique, however, is restricted to metal or semiconducting samples, as it requires a tiny…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-16 M. J. Rost

The investigation of the magnetic phase transitions in the parent compounds of Fe-based superconductors is regarded essential for an understanding of the pairing mechanism in the related superconducting compounds. Even though the chemical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-01 Jonas Warmuth , Martin Bremholm , Philip Hofmann , Jens Wiebe , Roland Wiesendanger

We address the question of probing the supercurrents in superconducting (SC) samples on a local scale by performing Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy (STS) experiments with a SC tip. In this configuration, we show that the tunneling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Kohen , Th. Proslier , T. Cren , Y. Noat , W. Sacks , H. Berger , D. Roditchev

Motivated by recent experimental reports of significant spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a sign-changing order-parameter in the Li$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$(OHFe)$_{1-y}$Zn$_y$Se superconductor with only electron pockets present, we study the possible…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-16 Jakob Böker , Pavel A. Volkov , Peter J. Hirschfeld , Ilya Eremin