Studying quantum materials with scanning SQUID microscopy

E Persky, I Sochnikov, B Kalisky - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Electronic correlations give rise to fascinating macroscopic phenomena such as
superconductivity, magnetism, and topological phases of matter. Although these …

Fundamental studies of superconductors using scanning magnetic imaging

JR Kirtley - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review I discuss the application of scanning magnetic imaging to fundamental studies
of superconductors, concentrating on three scanning magnetic microscopies—scanning …

Direct imaging of the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface

JA Bert, B Kalisky, C Bell, M Kim, Y Hikita, HY Hwang… - Nature physics, 2011 - nature.com
LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 are insulating, non-magnetic oxides, yet the interface between them
exhibits a two-dimensional electron system with high electron mobility, superconductivity at …

High-temperature surface superconductivity in topological flat-band systems

NB Kopnin, TT Heikkilä, GE Volovik - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
We show that the topologically protected flat band emerging on a surface of a nodal
fermionic system promotes the surface superconductivity due to an infinitely large density of …

Quantitative nanoscale vortex imaging using a cryogenic quantum magnetometer

L Thiel, D Rohner, M Ganzhorn, P Appel, E Neu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Microscopic studies of superconductors and their vortices play a pivotal role in
understanding the mechanisms underlying superconductivity,,,,. Local measurements of …

Visualization of electron nematicity and unidirectional antiferroic fluctuations at high temperatures in NaFeAs

EP Rosenthal, EF Andrade, CJ Arguello… - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
Superconductivity in the iron pnictides is often closely connected to a nematic state in which
the tetragonal symmetry of the crystal is spontaneously broken. Determining the dominant …

Scanning SQUID microscopy

JR Kirtley, JP Wikswo Jr - Annual Review of Materials Science, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The scanning SQUID microscope (SSM) is a powerful tool for imaging magnetic
fields above sample surfaces. It has the advantage of high sensitivity and bandwidth and the …

Suppression of superconductivity by twin boundaries in FeSe

CL Song, YL Wang, YP Jiang, L Wang, K He, X Chen… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy are employed to
investigate twin boundaries in stoichiometric FeSe films grown by molecular beam epitaxy …

High-temperature surface superconductivity in rhombohedral graphite

NB Kopnin, M Ijäs, A Harju, TT Heikkilä - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2013 - APS
Surface superconductivity in rhombohedral graphite is a robust phenomenon which can
exist even when higher order hoppings between the layers lift the topological protection of …

Nanoscale electrodynamics of strongly correlated quantum materials

M Liu, AJ Sternbach, DN Basov - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Electronic, magnetic, and structural phase inhomogeneities are ubiquitous in strongly
correlated quantum materials. The characteristic length scales of the phase inhomogeneities …