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Tunnelling in Organic Superconductors

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We present a simple scheme for computing the full current-voltage characteristics for tunnelling experiments within the framework of the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green function formalism. This formalism is flexible enough to address different pairing symmetries combined with magnetic fields at arbitrary bias voltages. We show how to apply these results to probe for the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in the Bechgaard salts using tunnelling experiments.

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  1. University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland

    C. J. Bolech & T. Giamarchi

  2. Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77251-1892, USA

    C. J. Bolech

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Bolech, C.J., Giamarchi, T. Tunnelling in Organic Superconductors. J Low Temp Phys 142, 225–230 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-006-9022-1

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