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Distribution of the Energy Gap in k Space for Superconducting Nb

M. L. A. MacVicar

  • Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Phys. Rev. B 2, 97 – Published 1 July, 1970

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.2.97

Abstract

Examination of available tunneling data from junctions oriented on single-crystal niobium shows that the observed superconducting energy gap values are grouped nonrandomly in k space. These groupings are consistent with a relationship between Δ(k) and Fermi-surface topology, but also suggest a significant role for phonon anisotropy.

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