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The quantum interference effect on the quasiparticle density of states (DOS) is studied with the diagrammatic technique in two-dimensional d-wave superconductors with dilute nonmagnetic impurities both near the Born and near the unitary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. H. Yang , Y. G. Wang , M. Liu , D. Y. Xing

Nematic order often breaks the tetragonal symmetry of iron-based superconductors. It arises from regular structural transition or electronic instability in the normal phase. Here, we report the observation of a nematic superconducting…

In the electronic nematic state, an electronic system has a lower symmetry than the crystal structure of the same system. Electronic nematic states have been observed in various unconventional superconductors such as cuprate- and…

Constant energy contour (CEC) of the surface bands in topological insulators varies not only with materials but also at different energies. The quasiparticle interference caused by scattering-off from defects on the surface of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 Qin Liu

We calculate the quantum correction to the classical conductance of a disordered mesoscopic normal-superconducting (NS) junction in which the electron spatial and spin degrees of freedom are coupled by an appreciable spin orbit interaction.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Keith Slevin , Jean-Louis Pichard , P. A. Mello

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

Superconducting circuits have attracted growing interest in recent years as a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Extensive efforts have always been taken to completely shield these circuits from external…

The disorder effects on higher-order topological phases in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems, such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between disorder and higher-order topology is still…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Zheng-Rong Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

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

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…

The nematic-superconductor state is an example of a quantum liquid crystal that breaks gauge as well as rotation invariance. It was conjectured to exist in the pseudogap regime of the cuprates high $T_c$ superconductors. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-18 Daniel G. Barci , Rafael V. Clarim , Nei L. Silva Júnior

We study the effect of random porous matrices on the ordering in nematic liquid crystals. The randomness destroys orientational lang-range order and drives the liquid crystal into a glass state. We predict two glass phases one of which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 D. E. Feldman

We have investigated theoretically the conductance of a Normal-Superconductor point-contact in the tunnel limit and analyzed the quantum interference effects originating from the scattering of quasiparticles by point-like defects.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ye. S. Avotina , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

We theoretically investigate transport signatures of quantum interference in highly symmetric double quantum dots in a parallel geometry and demonstrate that extremely weak symmetry-breaking effects can have a dramatic influence on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Zeng-Zhao Li , Martin Leijnse

We investigated the electronic properties of the topological insulator Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at low temperature. We obtained high-resolution quasiparticle interference data of the topological…

Boundary time crystals exhibit spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry through persistent periodic oscillations in driven-dissipative many-body systems. Here, we show that multilevel interference provides a natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kang Shen , Xiangming Hu , Fei Wang

A method is proposed to test for the nature of the pseudogap phase in cuprates using the recently developed technique of Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We show that the observed quasiparticle interference patterns depend…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Pereg-Barnea , M. Franz

We develop the full t-matrix theory of quasiparticle interference (QPI) for non-centrosymmetric (NCS) superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We give a closed solution for the QPI spectrum for arbitrary combination and strength of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-04 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier

The quest for the topological phases of matter in an aperiodic system has been greatly developed recently. Here we investigate the effects of disorder on topological phases of a two-dimensional Ammann-Beenker tiling quasicrystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

We compute the backscattered current in a double point-contact geometry of a Quantum Hall system at filling fraction $\nu=5/2$ as a function of bias voltage in the weak backscattering regime. We assume that the system is in the universality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Waheb Bishara , Chetan Nayak