Using multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) spectroscopy, we studied superconductor normal metal superconductor (SnS) semiballistic contacts with incoherent transport in overdoped pnictide superconductors BaFe1.86Ni0.14As2 with critical temperature Tc ≈ 12 K.… Click to show full abstract
Using multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) spectroscopy, we studied superconductor normal metal superconductor (SnS) semiballistic contacts with incoherent transport in overdoped pnictide superconductors BaFe1.86Ni0.14As2 with critical temperature Tc ≈ 12 K. We directly determined an anisotropic large gap with the characteristic ratios 2L(0)/kBTc ≈ 6 and 2L(0)/kBTc ≈ 4, almost isotropic small gap with 2S(0)/kBTc ≈ 2, and the temperature dependence of the resolved superconducting order parameters. Above the large gap position 2L, a fine dI(V)/dV structure fully vanishing at Tc and possibly caused by a resonant coupling with a bosonic mode was observed.
               
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