Quasiparticle Interference Studies of Quantum Materials

Abstract

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 studies of these surface states have provided a wealth of spectroscopic characterization, with the successful cooperation of ab initio calculations. The method of quasiparticle interference imaging proves to be particularly useful for probing the dispersion relation of the surface bands. Herein, how a variety of additional fundamental electronic properties can be probed via this method is reviewed. It is demonstrated how quasiparticle interference measurements entail mesoscopic size quantization and the electronic phase coherence in semiconducting nanowires; helical spin protection and energy-momentum fluctuations in a topological insulator; and the structure of the Bloch wave function and the relative insusceptibility of topological electronic states to surface potential in a topological Weyl semimetal.

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• Superconductor-Nanowire Devices from Tunneling to the Multichannel Regime: Zero-Bias Oscillations and Magnetoconductance Crossover
• Experimental demonstration of the topological surface states protected by the time-reversal symmetry
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• Imaging Quasiparticle Interference in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d
• Symmetry Protected Topological phases of Quantum Matter
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• Landau Quantization and Quasiparticle Interference in the Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2
• Electromagnetic Response of Weyl Semimetals
• Landau Quantization of Massless Dirac Fermions in Topological Insulator
• Spin-charge separation and localization in one-dimension
• Spatial Fluctuations of Helical Dirac Fermions on the Surface of Topological Insulators
• Observation of Dirac node formation and mass acquisition in a topological crystalline insulator
• Momentum-Resolved Landau-Level Spectroscopy of Dirac Surface State in Bi2Se3
• Imaging the Fano Lattice to 'Hidden Order' Transition in URu2Si2
• Imaging Dirac-Mass Disorder from Magnetic Dopant-Atoms in the Ferromagnetic Topological Insulator Cr${}_x$(Bi${}_{0.1}$Sb${}_{0.9}$)${}_{2-x}$Te${}_3$
• Visualizing heavy fermions emerging in a quantum critical Kondo lattice
• Topological surface states and Fermi arcs of the noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetals TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP
• Experimental Phase Diagram of a One-Dimensional Topological Superconductor
• Direct Measurement of the Out-of-Plane Spin Texture in the Dirac Cone Surface State of a Topological Insulator
• Quasiparticle interference of the Fermi arcs and surface-bulk connectivity of a Weyl semimetal
• Spin-orbit splitting of the Shockley surface state on Cu(111)
• Quasiparticle Interference on the Surface of the Topological Insulator Bi${}_2$Te${}_3$
• Real Space Imaging of One-Dimensional Standing Waves: Direct Evidence for a Luttinger Liquid
• Visualizing "Fermi arcs" in the Weyl semimetal TaAs
• Mapping the unconventional orbital texture in topological crystalline insulators
• Quasiparticle Interference, quasiparticle interactions and the origin of the charge density-wave in 2H-NbSe${}_2$
• One-Dimensional Energy Dispersion of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Resonant Electron Scattering
• Power-Law Decay of Standing Waves on the Surface of Topological Insulators
• Theory of quasiparticle interference on the surface of a strong topological insulator
• Three-particle collisions in quantum wires: Corrections to thermopower and conductance
• Scattering theory of the chiral magnetic effect in a Weyl semimetal: Interplay of bulk Weyl cones and surface Fermi arcs
• Energy relaxation and thermalization of hot electrons in quantum wires
• Holographic Maps of Quasiparticle Interference
• Selection rules for quasiparticle interference with internal nonsymmorphic symmetries

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• First Principles Calculations for Topological Quantum Materials
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• Polaritonic Quantum Matter
• Symmetry-selective quasiparticle scattering and electric field tunability of the ZrSiS surface electronic structure
• Living on the edge: Topology, electrostatics and disorder
• Real-space multiple scattering theory for superconductors with impurities
• Quasiparticle interference in altermagnets
• Power law decay of local density of states oscillations near a line defect in a system with semi-Dirac points
• Quasiparticle interference in doped topological insulators with nematic superconductivity
• Friedel oscillations in two-dimensional materials with inverted bands and Mexican-hat dispersion
• Theory of quasiparticle interference in Kitaev quantum spin liquids
• Local and global patterns in quasiparticle interference: a reduced response function approach
• Magnetic impurities on superconducting Pb surfaces
• Wave-particle duality of electrons with spin-momentum locking
• Visualization of Unconventional Rashba Band and Vortex Zero Mode in Topopogical Superconductor Candidate AuSn${}_4$
• Evidence of random spin-singlet state in a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid candidate Sr${}_3$CuNb${}_2$O${}_9$
• Projective Quasiparticle Interference of a Single Scatterer to Analyze the Electronic Band Structure of ZrSiS
• Uncovering hidden Fermi surface instabilities through visualizing unconventional quasiparticle interference in CeTe3
• Spin-resolved quasiparticle interference patterns on altermagnets via non-spin-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy
• Visualizing near-coexistence of massless Dirac electrons and ultra-massive saddle point electrons
• Feedback loop dependent charge density wave imaging by scanning tunneling spectroscopy
• Upper Bound Estimate of the Electronic Scattering Potential of a Weakly Interacting Molecular Film on a Metal
• Electrons flow like falling cats: Deformations and emergent gravity in quantum transport