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Spectroscopy of the Superconducting Gap in Individual Nanometer-Scale Aluminum Particles
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We use electron tunneling to measure electronic energy levels in individual nm-scale Al particles. For sufficiently large particles ( $\ensuremath{\gtrsim}5$ nm in radius), the eigenstate energies reveal the existence of a superconducting excitation gap $\ensuremath{\Omega}$ which is driven continuously to zero by an applied magnetic field. The presence of $\ensuremath{\Omega}$ increases the voltage threshold for tunneling in a particle with an even number of electrons in its ground state, but decreases the tunneling threshold for an odd-electron particle. We discuss the roles of spin and orbital pair breaking in the magnetic-field transition.
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- Authors
- Black, C. T., Ralph, D. C., & Tinkham, M.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1996-01-22
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 688-691
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2064048797
- Cited by
- 373
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 14.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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