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Inspired by recent discovery of metallic $d$-wave altermagnetism in KV$_2$Se$_2$O, we develop a self-consistent microscopic many-body calculation of density-wave order for an itinerant altermagnetic metal. We show that the strong $d$-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-13 Fei Yang , Guo-Dong Zhao , Binghai Yan , Long-Qing Chen

Tunable magnetic interactions in high-mobility nonmagnetic semiconductor heterostructures are centrally important to spin-based quantum technologies. Conventionally, this requires incorporation of "magnetic impurities" within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christoph Siegert , Arindam Ghosh , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie

Tunneling spectroscopy of superconductors provides valuable insights into gap symmetry, quasiparticle dynamics, and pairing mechanisms. This paper explores spatial patterns of quasiparticle interference in the tunneling density of states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-21 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Leonid Levitov

The measurement of quasiparticle scattering patterns on material surfaces using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is now an established technique for accessing the momentum-resolved electronic band structure of solids. However, since…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Xinze Yang , Alexander F. Kemper , Adrian Gozar , Eduardo H. da Silva Neto

We theoretically investigate the local density of states (LDOS) probed by a STM tip of ferromagnetic metals hosting a single adatom and a subsurface impurity. We model the system via the two-impurity Anderson Hamiltonian. By using the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 A. C. Seridonio , S. C. Leandro , L. H. Guessi , E. C. Siqueira , F. M. Souza , E. Vernek , M. S. Figueira , J. C. Egues

We study the problem of two local potential scatterers in a d-wave superconductor, and show how quasiparticle bound state wave functions interfere. Each single-impurity electron and hole resonance energy is in general split in the presence…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Lingyin Zhu , W. A. Atkinson , P. J. Hirschfeld

The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

Materials which show a strong time-reversal symmetry-breaking response leading to spin-polarization phenomena, in conjunction with antiparallel magnetic alignments producing zero net magnetization, have recently been identified, classified,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-04 Wenhan Chen , Alyn D. N. James , Stephen B. Dugdale

We study quasiparticle states on a surface of a topological insulator (TI) with proximity-induced superconductivity under an external magnetic field. An applied magnetic field creates two Majorana bound states: a vortex Majorana state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-02 Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Yuki Kawaguchi , Yukio Tanaka

We demonstrate the emergence of altermagnetism at the surfaces of antiferromagnets, vastly expanding the number of material candidates with altermagnetic characteristics and establishing a route to two-dimensional altermagnetism through…

We consider a single magnetic impurity described by the spin--anisotropic s-d(f) exchange (Kondo) model and formulate scaling equation for the spin-anisotropic model when the density of states (DOS) of electrons is a power law function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Eugene Kogan , Kazuto Noda , Seiji Yunoki

3D Dirac semimetals with square-net non-symmorphic symmetry, such as ternary ZrXY (X=Si, Ge; Y=S, Se, Te) compounds, have attracted significant attention owing to the presence of topological nodal lines, loops, or networks in their bulk.…

The local density of states (LDOS) around a magnetic impurity in high-Tc superconductors is studied using the two-dimensional t-J model with a realistic band structure. The order parameters are determined in a self-consistent way within the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroki Tsuchiura , Yukio Tanaka , Masao Ogata , Satoshi Kashiwaya

Motivated by recent experimental reports of significant spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a sign-changing order-parameter in the Li$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$(OHFe)$_{1-y}$Zn$_y$Se superconductor with only electron pockets present, we study the possible…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-16 Jakob Böker , Pavel A. Volkov , Peter J. Hirschfeld , Ilya Eremin

We study sharp low-energy resonance peaks in the local density of states (LDOS) induced by Zn impurities or possible Cu vacancies in superconducting Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+delta}. The measured structure of these near-zero-bias resonances is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Ming Tang , Michael E. Flatte'

We study impurity scattering in the normal and d-wave superconducting states of line nodal semimetals and show that, due to additional scattering phase space available for impurities on the surface, the quasiparticle interference pattern…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-03 Chandan Setty , Philip W. Phillips , Awadhesh Narayan

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

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order parameters resulting in a spin-splitting of electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Valentin Leeb , Alexander Mook , Libor Šmejkal , Johannes Knolle

Recent scanning tunnelling spectroscopy measurements [Y. Koksaka et al., Nature 454, 1072 (2008)] have shown that dispersing quasiparticle interference peaks in Fourier transformed conductance maps disappear as the bias voltage exceeds a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-22 Brian M. Andersen , P. J. Hirschfeld

The Lieb lattice, originally proposed for cuprate superconductors, has gained new attention in the emerging field of altermagnetism as a minimal analytical model for the latter. While initially the so-called inverse Lieb lattice (ILL) was…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Po-Hao Chang , Igor I. Mazin , Kirill D. Belashchenko