Absence of Andreev bound states in β-PdBi2 probed by point-contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy

作者:Che, Liqiang; Le, Tian; Xu, C. Q.; Xing, X. Z.; Shi, Zhixiang; Xu, Xiaofeng; Lu, Xin*
来源:Physical Review B, 2016, 94(2): 024519.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.024519

摘要

We report point-contact spectroscopic studies on high quality single crystalline beta-PdBi2 with a superconducting T-c = 5.2 K. Our measurements showa typical double-peak structure in the voltage-biased junction conductance at low temperatures, probably excluding the existence of topological Andreev bound states. The conductance curves can be well fitted with the standard Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model for s-wave superconductors, yielding a superconducting gap Delta(0) similar or equal to 0.