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We present a phenomenological calculation of the quasiparticle-interference (QPI) pattern and inelastic Neutron scattering (INS) spectra in iron-pnictide and layered iron-selenide compounds by using materials specific band-structure and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-24 Tanmoy Das , A. V. Balatsky

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…

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

We consider a general problem of a Josephson contact between two multiband superconductors with coexisting superconducting and magnetic phases. As a particular example, we use the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Ammar A. Kirmani , Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

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 compute the (0-11) surface spectral function, the surface density of states (DOS), and the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns, both in the normal state and superconducting (SC) state of UTe$_2$. We consider all possible non-chiral…

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

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…

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) patterns in momentum space are often assumed to be independent of the strength of the impurity potential when compared with other quantities, such as the joint density of states. Here, using the $T$-matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-13 Seung-Ju Hong , Jae-Mo Lihm , Cheol-Hwan Park

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

We develop a model for the effect of a magnetic field on quasiparticle interference in an iron-based superconductor. Recently, scanning tunneling experiments have been performed on Fe(Se,Te) to determine the relative sign of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-16 Steffen Sykora , Piers Coleman

I investigate the difference between the quasiparticle properties in two dimensional(2D)and three dimensional(3D) s-wave superconductors. Using the original BCS model for the pairing interaction and direct Coulomb interaction I show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Coffey

The quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns in BiS$_{2}$-based superconductors are theoretically investigated by taking into account the spin-orbital coupling and assuming the recently proposed $d^{*}_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$-wave pairing symmetry.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Yi Gao , Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , Peiqing Tong , Qiang-Hua Wang

Although no known material exhibits intrinsic topological superconductivity, wherein spin-triplet odd-parity electron pairing occurs, UTe2 is now the leading representative of this class. Conventionally, the parity of the superconducting…

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

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

A known source of decoherence in superconducting qubits is the presence of broken Cooper pairs, or quasiparticles. These can be generated by high-energy radiation, either present in the environment or purposefully introduced, as in the case…

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 investigate the role of gap characteristics such as anisotropy and inequality of the gaps in the quasiparticle interferences of iron pnictides using a five-orbital tight-binding model. We examine how the difference in the sensitivities…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-18 Dheeraj Kumar Singh