"Super weakly" coupled superconductivity in ultrathin superconductor-normal-metal bilayers

Details "Super weakly" coupled superconductivity in ultrathin superconductor-normal-metal bilayers "Super weakly" coupled superconductivity in ultrathin superconductor-normal-metal bilayers

2005-09-01

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509046v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

10 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.140507

Tunneling measurements of the temperature dependence of the electronic density of states (DOS) of ultrathin bilayers of Pb and Ag reveal that their superconducting energy gap, $\Delta (T)$, evolves similarly to BCS predictions despite the presence of a large anomalous DOS at the Fermi energy that persists as $T\to 0$. The gap ratio, ${2\Delta (0)}\over {k_BT_c}$, systematically decreases more than 20% below the BCS universal value of 3.52 in bilayers with the lowest superconducting transition temperatures, $T_c$; a behavior we deem super weakly coupled. A semi-quantitative model suggests that the reduced gap ratios result from a systematic depletion of the DOS available for pairing that occurs with the growth of the anomalous DOS at the Fermi energy.

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