1. Tunneling spectroscopy of the quasiparticle Andreev bound state in ion-irradiatedYBa2Cu3O7−δ/Pb junctions
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B. Niedermeier, Laura Greene, M. Aprili, E. Paraoanu, and M. Covington
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Physics ,Condensed matter physics ,Condensed Matter::Superconductivity ,Scattering rate ,Bound state ,Quasiparticle ,Density of states ,Conductance ,Atomic physics ,Spectroscopy ,Quantum tunnelling ,Ion - Abstract
Effects of disorder on the in-plane density of states of ${\mathrm{YBa}}_{2}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}{\mathrm{O}}_{7\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}$ are investigated by planar tunneling spectroscopy. Low-fluence 1-MeV ${\mathrm{He}}^{+}$ irradiation reduces the ${\mathrm{YBa}}_{2}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}{\mathrm{O}}_{7\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}$ ${T}_{c}$ and mean-free path without altering the junction quality. As the dirty limit is approached, the zero-bias conductance peak (ZBCP) disappears, as expected for a quasiparticle Andreev bound state. Thus, the quasiparticle scattering rate may be determined by the ZBCP magnitude. This rate is a direct measure of the pair-breaking strength and accounts for the ${T}_{c}$ suppression.
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- 1998
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