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Conductance Spectroscopy of Spin-triplet Superconductors

Superconductivity 2007-08-13 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We propose a novel experiment to identify the symmetry of superconductivity on the basis of theoretical results for differential conductance of a normal metal connected to a superconductor. The proximity effect from the superconductor modifies the conductance of the remote current depending remarkably on the pairing symmetry: spin-singlet or spin-triplet. The clear-cut difference in the conductance is explained by symmetry of Cooper pairs in a normal metal with respect to frequency. In the spin-triplet case, the anomalous transport is realized due to an odd-frequency symmetry of Cooper pairs.

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@article{arxiv.0705.0829,
  title  = {Conductance Spectroscopy of Spin-triplet Superconductors},
  author = {Yasuhiro Asano and Yukio Tanaka and Alexander A. Golubov and Satoshi Kashiwaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.0829},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4pages, 3 figures embedded