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Spin-triplet superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 probed by Andreev reflection

F. Laube, G. Goll, H. v. Löhneysen, M. Fogelström, F. Lichtenberg

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9907267

Abstract

The superconducting gap function of Sr2RuO4 was investigated by means of quasiparticle reflection and transmission at the normal conductor-superconductor interface of Sr2RuO4-Pt point contacts. We found two distinguishly different types of dV/dI vs V spectra either with a double-minimum structure or with a zero-bias conductance anomaly. Both types of spectra are expected in the limit of high and low transparency, respectively, of the interface barrier between a normal metal and a spin-triplet superconductor. Together with the temperature dependence of the spectra this result strongly supports a spin-triplet superconducting order parameter for Sr2RuO4.

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