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Evidence for Scattering-Dependent Multigap Superconductivity in Ba8Si46

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 Added by Yves Noat
 Publication date 2010
  fields Physics
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We have studied the quasiparticle excitation spectrum of the superconductor Ba8Si46 by local tunneling spectroscopy. Using high energy resolution achieved in Superconductor-Superconductor junctions we observed tunneling conductance spectra of a non-conventional shape revealing two distinct energy gaps, DeltaL = 1.3meV and DeltaS = 0.9meV. The analysis of tunneling data evidenced that DeltaL is the principal superconducting gap while DeltaS, smaller and more dispersive, is induced into an intrinsically non-superconducting band of the material by the inter-band quasiparticle scattering.



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