Electronic and Magnetic Excitations in Correlated and Topological Materials

Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Illinois, Chicago
Provides a theoretical explanation for a series of puzzling experimental observations around unconventional superconductivity

Develops a novel theoretical formalism for extracting the superconducting pairing interaction from scanning tunneling spectroscopy experiments
Offers readers insight into the possibilities for the next generation of spin electronics and quantum computing devices

Autorentext
John Van Dyke is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iowa. He obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Superconducting Gap in CeCoIn 5 .- Pairing Mechanism in CeCoIn 5 .- Real and Momentum Space Probes in CeCoIn 5 : 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.