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Andreev reflection at point contacts with heavy-fermion UBe13 ?

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-10-31 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We comment on a recent Letter by Waelti et al. (PRL 84, 5616 (2000)) on 'Spectroscopic evidence for unconventional superconductivity in UBe13'. We show - by using the basic Wexler formula - that it is unlikely to observe Andreev reflection at point contacts between UBe13 and a normal metal. The large superconducting anomalies usually found for those contacts are mainly due to the resistive Maxwell resistance vanishing below Tc of UBe13.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0007006,
  title  = {Andreev reflection at point contacts with heavy-fermion UBe13 ?},
  author = {K. Gloos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0007006},
  year   = {2009}
}

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1 page, no figures, RevTeX, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett