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We investigate the quasiparticle interference (QPI) in Fe-based superconductors in both the $s_{++}$-wave and $s_{\pm}$-wave superconducting states on the basis of the five-orbital model. In the octet model for cuprate superconductors with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-06 Youichi Yamakawa , Hiroshi Kontani

Quasiparticle interference imaging (QPI) offers insight into the band structure of quantum materials from the Fourier transform of local density of states (LDOS) maps. Their acquisition with a scanning tunneling microscope is traditionally…

We investigate the phase diagram of dirty two-band superconductors. This paper primarily focuses on the properties and observability of the time-reversal symmetry-breaking $s+is$ superconducting states, which can be generated in two-band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 Mihail Silaev , Julien Garaud , Egor Babaev

In many unconventional superconductors, the pairing of electrons is driven by the repulsive interaction, which leads to the sign reversal of superconducting gaps along the Fermi surfaces (FS) or between them. However, to measure this sign…

Quasiparticle interference in a d-wave superconductor with weak disorder produces distinctive peaks in the Fourier-transformed local density of states measured by scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We predict that amplitudes of these peaks…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Pereg-Barnea , M. Franz

We study how nonsymmorphic symmetries that commute with lattice translations are reflected in the quasiparticle interference (QPI) maps measured by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). QPI maps, which result from scattering of Bloch states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Raquel Queiroz , Ady Stern

We study the momentum-integrated quasiparticle interference (QPI) in the FeSe-based superconductors. This method was recently proposed theoretically and has been applied to determine the pairing symmetry in these materials experimentally.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-01 Yi Gao , Yuting Wang , Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , Qiang-Hua Wang

We propose an explanation for the electronic nematic state observed recently in parent iron-based superconductors [T.-M. Chuang et al., Science 327, 181 (2010)]. We argue that the quasi-one-dimensional nanostructure identified in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Knolle , I. Eremin , A. Akbari , R. Moessner

A crucial step in revealing the nature of unconventional superconductivity is to investigate the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy has proven a powerful technique to probe this symmetry by…

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) provides a wealth of information relating to the electronic structure of a material. However, it is often assumed that this information is constrained to two-dimensional electronic states. Here, we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-27 Luke C. Rhodes , Matthew D. Watson , Timur K. Kim , Matthias Eschrig

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

Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FT-STS), or quasiparticle interference (QPI), has become an influential tool for the study of a wide range of important materials in condensed matter physics. However, FT-STS in complex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 A J Macdonald , Y-S Tremblay-Johnston , S Grothe , S Chi , P Dosanjh , S Johnston , S A Burke

We study symmetry protected features in the quasiparticle interference (QPI) pattern of 2D systems with mirror symmetries and time-reversal symmetry, around a single static point impurity. We show that, in the Fourier transformed local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , Su-Yang Xu , B. Andrei Bernevig , M. Zahid Hasan

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…

Scanning tunneling microscopy can provide a probe for the detailed study of quasiparticle states in high-Tc superconductors. We propose that it can also be used to acquire specific information about impurity-induced quasiparticle states and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 M. I. Salkola , A. V. Balatsky , D. J. Scalapino

We analytically model a one-dimensional lattice with periodic impurities representing a photonic crystal from first principles. We then investigate bound states in the continuum by computing the transmission and reflection coefficients. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Benjamin Rempfer , Gonzalo Ordonez

We study the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns caused by scattering off nonmagnetic, magnetic point impurities, and edge impurities, separately, in a two dimensional helical liquid, which describes the surface states of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiaoting Zhou , Chen Fang , Wei-Feng Tsai , Jiangping Hu

We present a data-driven approach to compensate for optical aberration in calibration-free quantitative phase imaging (QPI). Unlike existing methods that require additional measurements or a background region to correct aberrations, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Taean Chang , Youngju Jo , Gunho Choi , Donghun Ryu , Hyun-Seok Min , Yongkeun Park

In this paper, we investigate the quasiparticle scattering interference(QPI) in the nematic phase of iron pnictides, based on the magnetic and orbital scenarios of nematicity, respectively. In the spin density wave(SDW) state, the QPI…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-13 Hai-Yang Zhang , Jian-Xin Li