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Phase-sensitive measurements of the superconducting gap in Fe-based superconductors have proven more difficult than originally anticipated. While quasiparticle interference (QPI) measurements based on scanning tunneling spectroscopy are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-21 P. J. Hirschfeld , D. Altenfeld , I. Eremin , I. I. Mazin

We study the superconducting gap function of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. By solving the linearized Eliashberg equation with a correlated pairing vertex extracted from a dynamical mean-field calculation we identify the dominant pairing channels. An…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-13 Stefan Käser , Hugo U. R. Strand , Nils Wentzell , Antoine Georges , Olivier Parcollet , Philipp Hansmann

We study the superconductivity pairing mechanism in Sr2RuO4 in the limit of small interaction by extending a renormalization group calculation developed by Raghu et al. [Phys. Rev. B 81, 224505 (2010)] to include spin-orbit coupling and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Scaffidi , J. C. Romers , S. H. Simon

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) imaging of Bogoliubov excitations in quasi-two dimensional unconventional superconductors has become a powerful technique for measuring the superconducting gap and its symmetry. Here, we present the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-01 Fabian Lambert , Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier , Ilya Eremin

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

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) imaging is well established to study the low-energy electronic structure in strongly correlated electron materials with unrivalled energy resolution. Yet, being a surface-sensitive technique, the…

Quasi-particle interference (QPI) measurements have provided a powerful tool for determining the momentum dependence of the gap of unconventional superconductors. Here we examine the possibility of using such measurements to probe the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-25 Thomas Dahm , Douglas J. Scalapino

One of the key issues in unraveling the mystery of high Tc superconductivity in the cuprates is to understand the normal state outside the superconducting dome. Here we perform scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-08 Xintong Li , Ying Ding , Chaocheng He , Wei Ruan , Peng Cai , Cun Ye , Zhenqi Hao , Lin Zhao , Xingjiang Zhou , Qianghua Wang , Yayu Wang

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

Scanning tunneling microscopy visualizations of quasiparticle interference (QPI) enable powerful insights into the k-space properties of superconducting, topological, Rashba and other exotic electronic phases, but their reliance on…

Modeling the spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4 through a three-orbital tight-binding model we investigate topological properties and edge states assuming chiral p-wave pairing. In concordance with experiments the three Fermi surfaces…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-16 Yoshiki Imai , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Manfred Sigrist

The existence of coherent quasiparticles near the Fermi energy in the low temperature state of high-temperature superconductors has been well established by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). This technique directly probes…

The local density of states power spectrum of optimally doped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$ (BSCCO) has been interpreted in terms of quasiparticle interference peaks corresponding to an "octet'' of scattering wave vectors connecting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Tamara S. Nunner , Wei Chen , Brian M. Andersen , Ashot Melikyan , P. J. Hirschfeld

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

Using a realistic ten-orbital tight-binding model Hamiltonian fitted to the angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) data on LiFeAs, we analyze the temperature, frequency, and momentum dependencies of quasiparticle interference (QPI) to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-07 D. Altenfeld , P. J. Hirschfeld , I. I. Mazin , I. Eremin

We investigate the quasiparticle interference in the heavy Fermion superconductor CeCoIn_5 as direct method to confirm the d-wave gap symmetry. The ambiguity between d_{xy} and d_{x^2-y^2} symmetry remaining from earlier specific heat and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-06 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier , Ilya Eremin

The Cooper pairing mechanism of heavy-fermion superconductors, while long hypothesized as due to spin fluctuations, has not been determined. It is the momentum space (k-space) structure of the superconducting energy gap delta(k) that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-23 M. P. Allan , F. Massee , D. K. Morr , J. van Dyke , A. W. Rost , A. P. Mackenzie , C. Petrovic , J. C. Davis

Visualizing atomic-orbital degrees of freedom is a frontier challenge in scanned microscopy. Some types of orbital order are virtually imperceptible to normal scattering techniques because they do not reduce the overall crystal lattice…

We study the dynamical spin susceptibility, $\chi({\bf q}, \omega)$, in the normal and superconducting state of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. In the normal state, we find a peak in the vicinity of ${\bf Q}_i\simeq (0.72\pi,0.72\pi)$ in agreement with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-08 Dirk K. Morr , Peter F. Trautman , Matthias J. Graf

The measurement of quasiparticle scattering patterns on material surfaces using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is now an established technique for accessing the momentum-resolved electronic band structure of solids. However, since…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Xinze Yang , Alexander F. Kemper , Adrian Gozar , Eduardo H. da Silva Neto