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Andreev reflection spectroscopy in strongly paired superconductors

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Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments on low-carrier-density superconductors, including twisted multilayer graphene, we study signatures of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) evolution in Andreev reflection spectroscopy. We establish that in a standard quantum point contact geometry, Andreev reflection in a BEC superconductor is unable to mediate a zero-bias conductance beyond e^2/h per lead channel. This bound is shown to result from a duality that links the sub-gap conductance of BCS and BEC superconductors. We then demonstrate that sharp signatures of BEC superconductivity, including perfect Andreev reflection, can be recovered by tunneling through a suitably designed potential well. We propose various tunneling spectroscopy setups to experimentally probe this recovery.

Publication: C. Lewandowski, É. Lantagne-Hurtubise, A. Thomson, S. Nadj-Perge, J. Alicea, Andreev reflection spectroscopy in strongly paired superconductors, arXiv:2207.09494.

Presenters

  • Cyprian K Lewandowski

    Florida State University

Authors

  • Cyprian K Lewandowski

    Florida State University

  • Etienne Lantagne-Hurtubise

    California Institute of Technology, Caltech

  • Alex R Thomson

    Caltech

  • Stevan Nadj-Perge

    Caltech

  • Jason F Alicea

    Caltech, California Institute of Technology