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Heavy-fermion superconductivity

How the heaviest electrons pair up

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Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy in a heavy-fermion superconductor provides direct access to the anisotropy of the pairing gap, opening a window for investigating the nature of the pairing interaction.

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Figure 1: Fermi surfaces and superconducting gap anisotropy.

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