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year 2018
author(s) F. Arnold, J. NyƩki, J. Saunders
title Superconducting Sweet-Spot in Microcrystalline Graphite Revealed by Point-Contact Spectroscopy
document type Paper
Keywords Superconductivity Graphite
source Jetp Lett. 107, 577-578 (2018)
doi 10.1134/S0021364018090023
arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00179
EMP/Horizon2020 This publication does not include a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement.
abstract

In this letter, we describe the observation of a magnetic field dependent electronic gap, suggestive of local superconductivity, in the point-contact spectrum of microcrystalline graphite. Magnetic field dependent point-contact spectroscopy has been carried out at a temperature of 1.8 K using an etched aluminum tip. At zero field, a gap structure in the differential conductance is observed, showing a gap of meV. On applying magnetic fields of up to 500 mT, this gap gradually closes, following the theoretical prediction by Ginzburg and Landau for a fully flux-penetrated superconductor. By applying BCS-theory, we infer a critical superconducting temperature of 14K.