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Quasiparticle interference in heavy Fermion superconductor CeCoIn_5
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 thermal transport investigations has been resolved in favor
of the latter by the observation of a spin resonance that can occur only in
d_{x^2-y^2} symmetry. However these methods are all indirect and depend
considerably on theoretical interpretation. Here we propose that quasiparticle
interference (QPI) spectroscopy by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can give
a direct fingerprint of the superconducting gap in real space which may lead to
a definite conclusion on its symmetry for CeCoIn_5 and related 115 compounds.
The QPI pattern for both magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities is calculated for
the possible d-wave symmetries and characteristic differences are found that
may be identified by STM method.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Polar Kerr effect from a time-reversal symmetry breaking unidirectional charge density wave
We analyze the Hall conductivity of a charge ordered
state with momentum and calculate the intrinsic
contribution to the Kerr angle using the fully reconstructed
tight-binding band structure for layered cuprates beyond the low energy hot
spots model and particle hole symmetry. We show that such a unidirectional
charge density wave (CDW), which breaks time reversal symmetry as recently put
forward by Wang and Chubukov [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 90}, 035149 (2014)], leads to a
nonzero polar Kerr effect as observed experimentally. In addition, we model a
fluctuating CDW via a large quasiparticle damping of the order of the CDW gap
and discuss possible implications for the pseudogap phase. We can qualitatively
reproduce previous measurements of underdoped cuprates but making quantitative
connections to experiments is hampered by the sensitivity of the polar Kerr
effect with respect to the complex refractive index .Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Evolution of the multiband RKKY interaction: Application to iron pnictides and chalcogenides
The indirect RKKY interaction in iron pnictide and chalcogenide metals is
calculated for a simplified four bands Fermi surface (FS) model. We investigate
the specific multi-band features and show that distinct length scales of the
RKKY oscillations appear. For the regular lattice of the local moments, the
generalized RKKY interaction is defined in momentum space. We consider its
momentum dependence in paramagnetic and spin density wave (SDW) phases, discuss
its implications for the possible type of magnetic order and compare it to the
results obtained from more realistic tight-binding type Fermi surface model.
Our finding can give important clues on the magnetic ordering of the 4f- iron
based superconductors.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figure
Surface state tunneling signatures in two-component superconductor UPt
Quasiparticle interference (QPI) imaging of Bogoliubov excitations in
quasi-two dimensional unconventional superconductors has become a powerful
technique for measuring the superconducting gap and its symmetry. Here, we
present the extension of this method to three-dimensional superconductors and
analyze the expected QPI spectrum for the two-component heavy fermion
superconductor UPt whose gap structure is still controversial. Starting
from a 3D electronic structure and the three proposed chiral gap models
or , we perform a slab calculation that determines the 2D
continuum Bogoliubov- de Gennes (BdG) surface quasiparticle bands and in
addition the in-gap flat-band Andreev bound states that lead to surface Weyl
arcs connecting the projected gap nodes. Both features are very distinct for
the three models, in particular the most prominent candidate is
singled out by the existence of {\it two} Weyl arcs due to the double monopole
node points. The signature of these distinct surface bound and continuum states
that is left in QPI is derived and discussed. We show that it provides a
fingerprint that may finally determine the true nodal structure of UPt
superconductor.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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