Electronic and Magnetic Excitations in Correlated and Topological Materials

• Main Author: Van Dyke, John S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

This thesis reports a major breakthrough in discovering the superconducting mechanism in CeCoIn5, the "hydrogen atom" among heavy fermion compounds. By developing a novel theoretical formalism, the study described herein succeeded in extracting the crucial missing element of superconductin...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Superconducting Gap in CeCoIn5
• Pairing Mechanism in CeCoIn5
• Real and Momentum Space Probes in CeCoIn5: Defect States in Differential Conductance and Neutron Scattering Spin Resonance
• Transport in Nanoscale Kondo Lattices
• Charge and Spin Currents in Nanoscale Topological Insulators
• Conclusions
• Appendix: Keldysh Formalism for Transport.