Impurity-induced states in conventional and unconventional superconductors

AV Balatsky, I Vekhter, JX Zhu - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2006 - APS
This review presents recent developments in the understanding of how impurities influence
the electronic states in the bulk properties of superconductors. The focus is on …

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of high-temperature superconductors

Ø Fischer, M Kugler, I Maggio-Aprile, C Berthod… - Reviews of Modern …, 2007 - APS
Tunneling spectroscopy has played a central role in the experimental verification of the
microscopic theory of superconductivity in classical superconductors. Initial attempts to apply …

Impurity and vortex states in the bilayer high-temperature superconductor

J Huang, ZD Wang, T Zhou - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We perform a theoretical examination of the local electronic structure in the recently
discovered bilayer high-temperature superconductor La 3 Ni 2 O 7. Our method begins with …

A Four Unit Cell Periodic Pattern of Quasi-Particle States Surrounding Vortex Cores in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

JE Hoffman, EW Hudson, KM Lang, V Madhavan… - Science, 2002 - science.org
Scanning tunneling microscopy is used to image the additional quasi-particle states
generated by quantized vortices in the high critical temperature superconductor …

The t–J model for the oxide high-Tc superconductors

M Ogata, H Fukuyama - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
A theoretical review is given on high temperature superconductivity in copper oxides
(cuprates) by focusing on the hole doping cases based on the view that it is realized in …

Competing orders in a magnetic field: Spin and charge order in the cuprate superconductors

Y Zhang, E Demler, S Sachdev - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We describe two-dimensional quantum spin fluctuations in a superconducting Abrikosov flux
lattice induced by a magnetic field applied to a doped Mott insulator. Complete numerical …

theory of underdoped high-temperature superconductors

IF Herbut - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The low-energy theory of d-wave quasiparticles coupled to fluctuating vortex loops that
describes the loss of phase coherence in a two-dimensional d-wave superconductor at T= 0 …

Low-energy quasiparticles in high-T c cuprates

NE Hussey - Advances in Physics, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this review is to summarize existing experimental investigations on the nature of
the low-energy quasiparticle excitations in high-T c cuprates, and to examine critically recent …

Antiferromagnetism from Phase Disordering of a -Wave Superconductor

IF Herbut - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
The unbinding of vortex defects in the superconducting condensate with d-wave symmetry at
T= 0 is shown to lead to the insulator with incommensurate spin-density-wave order. The …

Spin and Charge Order around Vortices and Impurities in High- Superconductors

JX Zhu, I Martin, AR Bishop - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
A comparative study is made for the spin and charge structure around superconducting
vortices and unitary impurities, by solving self-consistently an effective Hamiltonian including …