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Possible Fano effect and suppression of Andreev reflection in LaNiO

arXiv:2408.14294 · doi:10.1088/0256-307X/42/1/017301

Abstract

The recently-discovered high-temperature superconductor LaNiO under high pressure has stimulated intensive debates. Key controversies concern interlayer versus intralayer pairing scenarios and if the hybridization plays a key role in establishing the superconductivity. But experimental clarification is difficult due to the limitation of employing state-of-the-art techniques under high pressure. Here we propose that quasiparticle tunneling and Andreev reflection may provide a feasible way to distinguish different pairing scenarios. We predict that an asymmetric Fano line shape may be induced by the hybridization between the metallic bands and the strongly renormalized flat quasiparticle bands. In the superconducting state, we show that the Andreev reflection should be greatly suppressed for interlayer pairing superconductivity with a small interlayer hopping. We propose future experiments to examine these predictions and help clarify the fundamental physics of superconducting LaNiO and other multilayer nickelate superconductors.

6 pages, 4 figures

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