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Andreev Reflection in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Unconventional Superconductors

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We evaluate the differential conductance measured in a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) setting at arbitrary electron transmission between an STM tip and a two-dimensional (2D) superconductor with arbitrary gap structure.… Click to show full abstract

We evaluate the differential conductance measured in a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) setting at arbitrary electron transmission between an STM tip and a two-dimensional (2D) superconductor with arbitrary gap structure. Our analytical scattering theory accounts for Andreev reflections, which become prominent at larger transmissions. We show that this provides complementary information about the superconducting gap structure beyond the tunneling density of states, strongly facilitating the ability to extract the gap symmetry and its relation to the underlying crystalline lattice. We use the developed theory to discuss recent experimental results on superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene.

Keywords: tunneling spectroscopy; reflection scanning; spectroscopy; spectroscopy unconventional; andreev reflection; scanning tunneling

Journal Title: Physical Review Letters
Year Published: 2022

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