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We analyze the density of state (DOS) and a non-magnetic impurity effect in electron-doped cuprates starting from two different scenarios: the $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$-wave superconductivity coexisting with antiferromagnetic spin density wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-18 Bin Liu , Ying Liang

We consider a normal metal - superconductor (N-S) junction in the regime, when electrons in the normal metal are driven out of equilibrium. We show that the non-equilibrium fluctuations of the electron density in the N-layer cause the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. N. Narozhny , I. L. Aleiner , B. L. Altshuler

The performance of n-type amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors (TFTs) is largely controlled by the density of states (DoS) near the conduction band mobility edge. Here, the full subgap DoS of amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO) TFTs,…

We consider the chi_0 dependence of the density of states inside the normal metal of a superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) junction.Here chi_0 is the phase difference of two superconductors of the junction. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Zhou , P. Charlat , B. Spivak , B. Pannetier

The complete subgap defect density of states (DoS) is measured using the ultrabroadband (0.15 to 3.5 eV) photoconduction response from p-type thin-film transistors (TFTs) of tin oxide, SnO, and copper oxide, Cu$_2$O. The TFT photoconduction…

We study the emergent proximity effect in mesoscopic circuits that involve a conventional superconductor and an unconventional pnictide superconductor separated by a diffusive normal or ferromagnetic wire. The focus is placed on revealing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Stanislav Apostolov , Alex Levchenko

Using a dual-mode STM-AFM microscope operating below 50mK we measured the Local Density of States (LDoS) along small normal wires connected at both ends to superconductors with different phases. We observe that a uniform minigap can develop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. Le Sueur , P. Joyez , H. Pothier , C. Urbina , D. Esteve

The ability to gate-induce superconductivity by electrostatic charge accumulation is a recent breakthrough in physics and nano-electronics. With the exception of LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interfaces, experiments on gate-induced superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-11 Davide Costanzo , Haijing Zhang , Bojja Aditya Reddy , Helmuth Berger , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Using Scanning Tunneling Microscope at low temperature we explore the superconducting phase diagram in the $\pi$-band of the two-band superconductor MgB$_2$. In this band the peculiar shape of the local tunneling spectra and their dynamics…

The dynamical properties of a recently introduced phenomenological model for high temperature superconductors are investigated. In the clean limit, it was observed that none of the homogeneous or striped states that are induced by the model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Mayr , A. Gonzalez , A. Moreo , E. Dagotto

We report on the temperature dependence of the quasiparticle density of states (DOS) in the simple binary compound MgB2 directly measured using scanning tunneling microscope (STM). To achieve high quality tunneling conditions, a small…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Giubileo , D. Roditchev , W. Sacks , R. Lamy , D. X. Thanh , J. Klein , S. Miraglia , D. Fruchart , J. Marcus , Ph. Monod

In this Letter we discuss various properties of the local density of states (DOS) for a superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid system. The DOS is modified at small energies on both sides of the interface. Due to the interplay of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosario Fazio , Carlo Lucheroni

We investigated the local density of states (LDOS) of a normal metal (N) in good electrical contact with a superconductor (S) as a function of the distance $x$ to the NS interface. The sample consists of a pattern of alternate stripes of Au…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Vinet , C. Chapelier , F. Lefloch

A new technique permits high fidelity measurement of the tunneling density of states (TDOS) of the two-dimensional electron gas. The obtained TDOS contains no distortions arising from low 2D in-plane conductivity and includes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 H. B. Chan , P. I. Glicofridis , R. C. Ashoori , M. L. Melloch

We use the tomographic density of states (TDoS), which is a measure of the density of states for a single slice through the band structure of a solid, to study the temperature evolution of the superconducting gap in the cuprates. The TDoS…

We study the tunneling density of states (DoS) in the superconducting systems driven by Zeeman splitting $E_Z$ into the paramagnetic phase. We show that, even though the BCS gap disappears, superconducting fluctuations cause a strong DoS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-19 Hae-Young Kee , I. L. Aleiner , B. L. Altshuler

We study the density of states (DOS) and the transition temperature $T_c$ in a dirty superconducting film with rare classical magnetic impurities of an arbitrary strength described by the Poissonian statistics. We take into account that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-24 I. S. Burmistrov , M. A. Skvortsov

Tunneling measurements of the temperature dependence of the electronic density of states (DOS) of ultrathin bilayers of Pb and Ag reveal that their superconducting energy gap, $\Delta (T)$, evolves similarly to BCS predictions despite the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhenyi Long , M. D. Stewart , James M. Valles

We review the density of states and related quantities of quasi one-dimensional disordered Peierls systems in which fluctuation effects of a backscattering potential play a crucial role. The low-energy behavior of non-interacting fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-27 Lorenz Bartosch

The conditions for the formation of zero-energy peak in the density of states (DOS) in the normal metal / insulator / diffusive ferromagnet / insulator / s-wave superconductor (N/I/DF/I/S) junctions are studied by solving the Usadel…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov