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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

We employ a five-orbital tight-binding model to develop the mean field solution for various possible spin density wave states in the iron-chalcogenides. The quasiparticle interference (QPI) technique is applied to detect signatures of these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-09 Bhaskar Kamble , Alireza Akbari , Ilya Eremin

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

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

Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FT-STS) measures the scattering of conduction electrons from impurities and defects, giving information about the electronic structure of both the host material and adsorbed impurities. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 Philip G. Derry , Andrew K. Mitchell , David E. Logan

Quasi-particle interference (QPI) measurements have provided a powerful tool for determining the momentum dependence of the gap of unconventional superconductors. Here we examine the possibility of using such measurements to probe the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-25 Thomas Dahm , Douglas J. Scalapino

We revisit the interpretation of quasiparticle scattering interference in cuprate high-$T_c$ superconductors. This phenomenon has been very successful in reconstructing the dispersions of d-wave Bogoliubov excitations, but the successful…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-18 Miguel Antonio Sulangi , Milan P. Allan , Jan Zaanen

Scanning tunneling microscopy visualizations of quasiparticle interference (QPI) enable powerful insights into the k-space properties of superconducting, topological, Rashba and other exotic electronic phases, but their reliance on…

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 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

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

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

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

Repeated observations of inhomogeneity in cuperate superconductors[1-5] make one immediately question the existance of coherent quasiparticles(qp's) and the applicability of a momentum space picture. Yet, obversations of interference…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-13 Eun-Ah Kim , Michael J. Lawler

Quasiparticle interference patterns measured by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can be used to study the local electronic structure of metal surfaces and high temperature superconductors. Here, we show that even in non-magnetic systems…

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 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

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

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

Identifying, quantifying, and suppressing decoherence mechanisms in qubits are important steps towards the goal of engineering a quantum computer or simulator. Superconducting circuits offer flexibility in qubit design; however, their…