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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 42: Superconductivity: Tunneling and Josephson Junctions
TT 42.1: Vortrag
Donnerstag, 20. März 2025, 09:30–09:45, H32
Extraction of the Density of States and the Gap Function on a Temperature Smearing Scale from the Tunneling Conductance Data — •Lucia Gelenekyová and František Herman — Comenius University in Bratislava
The aim of our work is to extract the density of states (DOS) and the gap function from the tunneling conductance data at higher temperatures. It is known that if the temperature approaches zero, the DOS function is proportional to the tunneling conductance, and therefore, it can be easily extracted. However, with increasing temperature, the temperature smearing causes that this approximation can no longer be used. Thus, we have developed an algorithm that was designed to extract the details of the DOS function and the gap function on a typical temperature scale, which can be used approximately up to 1/2 of Tc. Moreover, knowledge of the DOS in its normal state plays an important role. Hence, we present the results of the testing data sets and also the outcome from experimentally measured tunneling conductance data of the NbN superconductor.
This work has been supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the Contract no. APVV-23-0515, by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 945478.
Keywords: Superconducting gap function; Density of states; Tunneling conductance; Scanning tunneling spectroscopy