Point-Contact Spectroscopy of the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn$_5$

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2004-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409090v2

Phys. Rev. B 72, 052509 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 4 figures, resubmitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.052509

The dynamic conductance of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ is measured by point-contact spectroscopy as a function of temperature from 60 K down to 400 mK. The contact between the gold tip and the single-crystal is shown to be in the Sharvin limit with the enhanced sub-gap conductance arising from Andreev reflection. The zero-bias conductance data are best fit using the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model with a d-wave superconducting order parameter. A fit to the full conductance curve at 400 mK indicates strong coupling ($2\Delta(0)/k_\textrm{B}T_\textrm{c} = 4.6$) and quantifies the suppressed Andreev reflection signal, which is a signature of normal-metal/heavy-fermion superconductor junctions. Possibilites for theoretical modeling to account for the suppressed Andreev conductance are suggested.

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