Andreev reflection spectroscopy in strongly paired superconductors

Cyprian Lewandowski; Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise; Alex Thomson; Stevan Nadj-Perge; Jason Alicea

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L020502

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Andreev reflection spectroscopy in strongly paired superconductors

Cyprian Lewandowski, Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise, Alex Thomson, Stevan Nadj-Perge, Jason Alicea

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L020502 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments on low-carrier-density superconductors, including twisted multilayer graphene, we study signatures of the BCS-to-BEC evolution in Andreev reflection spectroscopy. We establish that in a standard quantum point contact geometry, Andreev reflection in a BEC superconductor is unable to mediate a zero-bias conductance beyond e2/h per lead channel. This bound is shown to result from a mapping that links the subgap conductance of BCS and BEC superconductors. We then demonstrate that sharp signatures of BEC superconductivity, including perfect Andreev reflection, can be recovered by tunneling through a suitably designed potential well. We propose various tunneling spectroscopy setups to experimentally probe this recovery.