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The Fourier-transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FTSTS) contains rich signals related to the quasiparticle scattering interference and/or the density-wave-like orders which are crucial in interpretation of the ground states and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-01 Jhinhwan Lee

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…

We investigate quasiparticle interference on an altermagnetic Lieb-like lattice and show how a non-spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy measurement can yield effectively spin-resolved information. Within a four-site tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-15 Eric Petermann , Kristian Mæland , Björn Trauzettel

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) obtained from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a powerful method to help extract the pairing symmetry of unconventional superconductors. We examine the general properties of QPI on surfaces of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-18 Hans Christiansen , Brian M. Andersen , P. J. Hirschfeld , Andreas Kreisel

The local quasiparticle density of states around a unitary impurity with a Kondo-like magnetic moment induced at its nearest neighbors in a d-wave superconductor is studied within the slave-boson mean-field approach. The Hamiltonian is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) in spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy provides a powerful method to detect orbital band structures and orbital ordering patterns in transition metal oxides. We use the $T$-matrix formalism…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-05 Wei-Cheng Lee , D. P. Arovas , Congjun Wu

The impurity-induced quasiparticle interference(QPI) in the parent compounds of iron-pnictide superconductors is investigated based on a phenomenological two-orbital four-band model and T-matrix method. We find the QPI is sensitive to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-18 Huaixiang Huang , Yi Gao , Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting

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

Impurity bound states and quasi-particle scattering from these can serve as sensitive probes for identifying the pairing state of a superconducting condensate. We introduce and discuss defect bound state quasi-particle interference…

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

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

We present here an overview of the Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling spectroscopy technique (FT-STS). This technique allows one to probe the electronic properties of a two-dimensional system by analyzing the standing waves formed in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Simon , C. Bena , F. Vonau , M. Cranney , D. Aubel

We consider the effect of magnetic impurities, modeled by classical spins, in a conventional superconductor. We study their effect on the quasiparticles, specifically on the spin density and local density of states (LDOS). As previously…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Sacramento , V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira

The conduction electron density of states nearby a single magnetic impurity, as measured recently by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), is calculated. It is shown that the Kondo effect induces a narrow Fano resonance as an intrinsic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-20 O. Ujsaghy , J. Kroha , L. Szunyogh , A. Zawadowski

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

Quasi-particle interference (QPI) is a powerful tool to characterize the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in unconventional superconductors, by mapping the spatial dependence of elastic tunneling of electrons between the tip…

We use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to study magnetic Fe impurities intentionally doped into the high-temperature superconductor Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$Ca$_{2}$CuO$_{8+\delta}$. Our spectroscopic measurements reveal that Fe impurities…

In topological insulators (TI), strong spin-orbit coupling results in non-trivial scattering processes of the surface states, whose effects include suppressed back scattering1, 2, 3, 4 weak anti-localization5, 6 and the possibility of an…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-27 Y. Okada , C. Dhital , Wen-Wen Zhou , Hsin Lin , S. Basak , A. Bansil , Y. -B. Huang , H. Ding , Z. Wang , Stephen D. Wilson , V. Madhavan

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…

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) of the electronic states has been widely applied in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to analyze the electronic band structure of materials. Single-defect induced QPI reveals defect-dependent interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-08 Wenhao Zhang , Kunliang Bu , Fangzhou Ai , Zongxiu Wu , Ying Fei , Yuan Zheng , Jianhua Du , Minghu Fang , Yi Yin

We carry out a theoretical analysis of the momentum dependence of the Fourier-transformed local density of states (LDOS) in the superconducting cuprates within a model considering the interference of quasiparticles scattering on quenched…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-06-16 L. Dell'Anna , J. Lorenzana , M. Capone , C. Castellani , M. Grilli