calcQPI: A versatile tool to simulate quasiparticle interference
Peter Wahl, Luke C. Rhodes, Carolina A. Marques
SciPost Phys. Codebases 61 (2025) · published 5 November 2025
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCodeb.61
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| DOI | Type | Published on | |
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| 10.21468/SciPostPhysCodeb.61 | Article | 2025-11-05 | |
| 10.21468/SciPostPhysCodeb.61-r1.0 | Codebase release | 2025-11-05 |
Abstract
Quasiparticle interference imaging (QPI) provides a route to characterize electronic structure from real space images acquired using scanning tunneling microscopy. It emerges due to scattering of electrons at defects in the material. The QPI patterns encode details of the $k$-space electronic structure and its spin and orbital texture. Recovering this information from a measurement of QPI is non-trivial, requiring modelling not only of the dominant scattering vectors, but also the overlap of the wave functions with the tip of the microscope. While, in principle, it is possible to model QPI from density functional theory (DFT) calculations, for many quantum materials it is more desirable to model the QPI from a tight-binding model, where inaccuracies of the DFT calculation can be corrected. Here, we introduce an efficient code to simulate quasiparticle interference from tight-binding models using the continuum Green's function method.
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