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Motivated by the desire to investigate the fundamental relationship between impurity-induced states and the sign change of the superconducting order parameter, as well as to explore the impurity effects in Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-23 Junkang Huang , Z. D. Wang , Tao Zhou

We describe the effects of electronic perturbation distributed on nearest neighbor sites to the impurity center in a planar \textit{d}-wave superconductor, in approximation of circular Fermi surface. Alike the behavior previously reported…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. G. Pogorelov , M. C. Santos

Impurity resonances observed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy in the superconducting state have been used to deduce properties of the underlying pure state. Here we study a longstanding puzzle associated with these measurements, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian M. Andersen , S. Graser , P. J. Hirschfeld

Impurity effects are probes for revealing an unconventional property in superconductivity. We study effects of non-magnetic impurities, in a 2D topological superconductor with s-wave pairing, the Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and the Zeeman…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-29 Yuki Nagai , Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida

We analyze doping dependence of the spin resonance of an s+- superconductor and its sensitivity to the ellipticity of electron pockets, to magnetic and non-magnetic impurities, and to the angle dependence of the superconducting gap along…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Maiti , J. Knolle , I. Eremin , A. V. Chubukov

We study the effect of impurities in superconducting graphene and discuss their influence on the local electronic properties. In particular, we consider the case of magnetic and non-magnetic impurities being either strongly localized or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 T. O. Wehling , H. P. Dahal , A. I. Lichtenstein , A. V. Balatsky

We have investigated a new feature of impurity cyclotron resonances common to various localized potentials of graphene. A localized potential can interact with a magnetic field in an unexpected way in graphene. It can lead to formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang , A. H. MacDonald

We theoretically investigate the impurity levels and exchange interaction between magnetic impurities in graphene driven by an off-resonant circularly polarized light field. Our analysis captures the non-perturbative effects resulting from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Modi Ke , Wang-Kong Tse

Unconventional features in superconductivity are revealed by responses to impurity scattering. We study non-magnetic impurity effects in a three-dimensional topological superconductor, focusing on an effective model (massive Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-06 Yuki Nagai , Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida

We consider the effects of magnetic impurities on the surface of superconducting Cu doped $Bi_{2}Se_{3}$ in the odd parity pairing phase which support topologically protected Majorana fermions surface states with linear spectrum. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-11 Ting-Pong Choy , K. T. Law , Tai-Kai Ng

In materials with strong local Coulomb interactions, simple defects such as atomic substitutions strongly affect both macroscopic and local properties of the system. A nonmagnetic impurity, for instance, is seen to induce magnetism nearby.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Alloul , J. Bobroff , M. Gabay , P. J. Hirschfeld

Motivated by the recent experiment by Marguerite et al. [1] on imaging in graphene samples, we investigate theoretically the dissipation induced by resonant impurities in the quantum Hall regime. The impurity induced forward scattering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Gu Zhang , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

The recent experimental study of the far-infrared transmission spectroscopy of monolayer graphene has shown that the Drude peak width increases by more than $10\%$ per $1\%$ of applied mechanical strain, while the Drude weight remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 V. O. Shubnyi , S. G. Sharapov , Y. V. Skrypnyk

Renowned for its sensitivity to detect the presence of numerous substances, graphene is an excellent chemical sensor. Unfortunately, which general features a dopant must have in order to enter the list of substances detectable by graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 John Duffy , James A Lawlor , Caio Lewenkopf , Mauro S Ferreira

A theory for the effect of impurity scattering on electronic Raman scattering in unconventional superconductors is presented. The impurity dependence of the the spectra can be used to to distinguish between conventional (anisotropic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. P. Devereaux

We study the band dispersion of graphene with randomly distributed structural defects using two complementary methods, exact diagonalization of the tight-binding Hamiltonian and implementing a self-consistent T matrix approximation. We…

In view of the many quantum field theoretical descriptions of graphene in $2+1$ dimensions, we present another field theoretical feature of graphene, in the presence of defects. Particularly, we shall be interested in gapped graphene in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-30 V. K. Oikonomou

We investigate the effect of magnetic impurities on the local quasiparticle density of states (LDOS) in iron-based superconductors. Employing the two-orbital model where 3$d$ electron and hole conduction bands are hybridizing with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-26 Alireza Akbari , Ilya Eremin , Peter Thalmeier

We review all symmetry-allowed spin-singlet and spin-triplet superconducting (SC) order parameters in graphene ($s$-wave, $d$-wave, $p$-wave, and $f$-wave) generated by generic onsite, nearest-neighbor (NN), and next-to-nearest-neighbor…

We examine the role of order-parameter suppression in the development of low-energy peaks (i.e., resonances) in the tunneling density of states near a non-magnetic impurity in a d-wave superconductor. Without order-parameter suppression,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Inanc Adagideli , Paul M. Goldbart , Ali Yazdani