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Title: Heavy d-electron quasiparticle interference and real-space electronic structure of Sr3Ru2O7
Authors: Jinho Lee, M. P. Allan, M. A. Wang, J. Farrell, S. A. Grigera, F. Baumberger, J. C. Davis & A. P. Mackenzie

The intriguing idea that strongly interacting electrons can generate spatially inhomogeneous electronic liquid-crystalline phases is over a decade old, but these systems still represent an unexplored frontier of condensed-matter physics. One reason is that visualisation of the many-body quantum states generated by the strong interactions, and of the resulting electronic phases, has not been achieved. Soft condensed-matter physics was transformed by microscopies that enabled imaging of real-space structures and patterns. A candidate technique for obtaining equivalent data in the purely electronic systems is spectroscopic imaging scanning tunnelling microscopy (SI-STM). The core challenge is to detect the tenuous but 'heavy' momentum (k)-space components of the many-body electronic state simultaneously with its real-space constituents. Sr3Ru2O7 provides a particularly exciting opportunity to address these issues. It possesses a very strongly renormalised 'heavy' d-electron Fermi liquid and exhibits a field-induced transition to an electronic liquid-crystalline phase. Finally, as a layered compound, it can be cleaved to present an excellent surface for SI-STM.

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