Spectroscopic Imaging of Strongly Correlated Electronic States

The study of correlated electronic systems from high-T c cuprates to heavy-fermion systems continues to motivate the development of experimental tools to probe electronic phenomena in new ways and with increasing precision. In the past two decades, spectroscopic imaging with scanning tunneling micro...

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Published in:Annual review of condensed matter physics 2016-03, Vol.7 (1), p.11-33
Main Authors: Yazdani, Ali, da Silva Neto, Eduardo H, Aynajian, Pegor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
cuprates
heavy fermions
MATERIALS SCIENCE
scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)
superconductivity
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Summary:The study of correlated electronic systems from high-T c cuprates to heavy-fermion systems continues to motivate the development of experimental tools to probe electronic phenomena in new ways and with increasing precision. In the past two decades, spectroscopic imaging with scanning tunneling microscopy has emerged as a powerful experimental technique. The combination of high energy and spatial resolutions provided by this technique reveals unprecedented detail of the electronic properties of strongly correlated metals and superconductors. This review examines specific experiments, theoretical concepts, and measurement methods that have established the application of these techniques to correlated materials. A wide range of applications, such as the study of collective responses to single atomic impurities, the characterization of quasiparticle-like excitations through their interference, and the identification of competing electronic phases using spectroscopic imaging, are discussed.
ISSN:1947-5454
1947-5462
DOI:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031214-014529