Abstract
The reflection of electrons incident from a normal metal on the bound-ary of the metal with a quasi-one-dimensional conductor containing a charge-density wave (CDW) is investigated theoretically. It is shown that the reflection is not of an Andreev character but rather of a Bragg character. This is due to the fact that the CDW is actually an electronic crystal, and its wave vector is a reciprocal lattice vector of the elec-tronic crystal. The ratio of the intensities of the standard and Bragg reflection depends on the phase of the CDW.
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 65, No. 1, 50–55 (10 January 1997)