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One of the key motivations for the development of atomically resolved spectroscopic imaging STM (SI-STM) has been to probe the electronic structure of cuprate high temperature superconductors. In both the d-wave superconducting (dSC) and…

A complicating factor in unraveling the theory of high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity is the presence of a "pseudogap" in the density of states, whose origin has been debated since its discovery [1]. Some believe the pseudogap is a…

In the first three years since the discovery of Fe-based high Tc superconductors, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy have shed light on three important questions. First, STM has demonstrated the complexity of the pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Jennifer E. Hoffman

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

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

Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FT-STS) measures the scattering of conduction electrons from impurities and defects, giving information about the electronic structure of both the host material and adsorbed impurities. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 Philip G. Derry , Andrew K. Mitchell , David E. Logan

Motivated by the recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and neutron scattering experiments, we investigate various charge density wave orders coexisting with superconductivity in the cuprate superconductors. The explicit expressions of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Degang Zhang

Quantum state tomography is a central technique for the characterization and verification of quantum systems. Standard tomography is widely used for low-dimensional systems, but for larger systems, it becomes impractical due to the…

Quantum information protocols often rely on tomographic techniques to determine the state of the system. A popular method of encoding information is on the different paths a photon may take, for example, parallel waveguides in integrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Davor Curic , Lambert Giner , Jeff S. Lundeen

We propose a technique for performing quantum state tomography of photonic polarization-encoded multi-qubit states. Our method uses a single rotating wave plate, a polarizing beam splitter and two photon-counting detectors per photon mode.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Agata M. Branczyk , Daniel F. V. James

We systematically calculate quasiparticle interference (QPI) signatures for the whole phase diagram of iron-based superconductors. Impurities inherent in the sample together with ordered phases lead to distinct features in the QPI images…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Akbari , J. Knolle , I. Eremin , R. Moessner

With the help of a simple model, we analyze Scanning Tunneling Microscopy images of simple and double moir\'e patterns resulting from misoriented bi- and tri-layers graphene stacks. It is found that the model reproduces surprisingly well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Frédéric Joucken , Fernande Frising , Robert Sporken

Electronic structure of high-temperature superconducting cuprates is studied by analyzing experimental data independently obtained from two complementary spectroscopies, one, quasiparticle interference (QPI) measured by scanning-tunneling…

Quasicrystals have a higher degree of rotational and point-reflection symmetry than conventional crystals. As a result, quasicrystalline heterostructures fabricated from dielectric materials with micrometer-scale features exhibit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Yael Roichman , David G. Grier

Moir\'e patterns are a central motif in van der Waals heterostructures arising from the superposition of two-dimensional (2D) incommensurate lattices. These patterns reveal a wealth of correlated effects, influencing electronic, magnetic,…

Central to the enigma of the cuprates is ubiquitous electronic inhomogeneity arising from a variety of electronic orders that coexist with superconductivity, the individual signatures of which have been impossible to disentangle despite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-02 Riju Banerjee , Emily L. Wang , Eric W. Hudson

The surface tunneling microscope (STM) method probes the itinerant conduction electron spectrum which is influenced by the presence of collective order parameters. It may in fact be used as a tool to obtain important information about their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier

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…

Two-dimensional superconductivity has become a major frontier in condensed matter physics. It holds the key to the mechanism of high-temperature superconductors and offers an exceptional arena to stabilize emergent quantum states enabled by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-16 Qiang-Jun Cheng , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue , Can-Li Song

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