Study on the tunneling spectroscopy of $N-pS$ junction and $N-hS$ junction
Abstract
We study the complete tunneling spectroscopy of a normal metal/-wave superconductor junction () and normal metal/heterostructure superconductor junction () by Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk (BTK) method. We find that, for -wave superconductor with non-trivial topology, there exists a quantized zero-bias conductance peak stably, for heterostructure superconductor with non-trivial topology, the emerging zero-bias conductance peak is non-quantized and usually has a considerable gap to the quantized value. Furthermore, it is sensitive to parameters, especially to spin-orbit coupling and the -wave pairing potential. Results obtained suggest that the observation of a small zero-bias conductance peak, instead of a quantized zero-bias conductance peak, in current tunneling experiments can be a natural result if the spin-orbit coupling turns out to be several times smaller than the reported one. Results obtained also suggest that both a stronger spin-orbit coupling and proximity -wave superconductor with relative weaker pairing potential can produce a much more striking zero-bias conductance peak (compared to the experiments), even an almost quantized one. As -wave superconductors are common in nature, the prediction can be verified within current experiment ability.
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@article{arxiv.1402.1964,
title = {Study on the tunneling spectroscopy of $N-pS$ junction and $N-hS$ junction},
author = {Zhongbo Yan and Shaolong Wan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1964},
year = {2014}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures