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Quasi-particle interference (QPI) is a powerful tool to characterize the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in unconventional superconductors, by mapping the spatial dependence of elastic tunneling of electrons between the tip…

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) in spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy provides a powerful method to detect orbital band structures and orbital ordering patterns in transition metal oxides. We use the $T$-matrix formalism…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-05 Wei-Cheng Lee , D. P. Arovas , Congjun Wu

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

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

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

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

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

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

Experiments have observed superconductivity in atomically-thin metallic layers deposited on semiconducting substrates. As in any superconductor, it is important to determine the structure of the superconducting pairing function in order to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-19 B. A. Levitan , J. Eid , T. Pereg-Barnea

We develop a theory of the quasiparticle interference (QPI) in multiband superconductors based on strong-coupling Eliashberg approach within the Born approximation. In the framework of this theory, we study dependencies of the QPI response…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Dutt , A. A. Golubov , O. V. Dolgov , D. V. Efremov

Using both two orbital and five orbital models, we investigate the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns in the superconducting (SC) state of iron-based superconductors. We compare the results for nonmagnetic and magnetic impurities in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Yan-Yang Zhang , Chen Fang , Xiaoting Zhou , Kangjun Seo , Wei-Feng Tsai , B. Andrei Bernevig , Jiangping Hu

We model the quasiparticle interference (QPI) pattern in the recently discovered (K,Tl)Fe_xSe2 superconductors. We show in the superconducting state that, due to the absence of hole pockets at the Brillouin zone center, the quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Jian-Xin Zhu , A. R. Bishop

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

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

We investigate the quasiparticle interference in the heavy Fermion superconductor CeCoIn_5 as direct method to confirm the d-wave gap symmetry. The ambiguity between d_{xy} and d_{x^2-y^2} symmetry remaining from earlier specific heat and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-06 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier , Ilya Eremin

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 (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

Exotic electronic states are realized in novel quantum materials. This field is revolutionized by the topological classification of materials. Such compounds necessarily host unique states on their boundaries. Scanning tunneling microscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nurit Avraham , Jonathan Reiner , Abhay Kumar-Nayak , Noam Morali , Rajib Batabyal , Binghai Yan , Haim Beidenkopf

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

Phase-sensitive measurements of the superconducting gap in Fe-based superconductors have proven more difficult than originally anticipated. While quasiparticle interference (QPI) measurements based on scanning tunneling spectroscopy are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-21 P. J. Hirschfeld , D. Altenfeld , I. Eremin , I. I. Mazin
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