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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 96, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.027005
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By using a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope we have probed the superconducting energy gap of epitaxially grown Pb films as a function of the layer thickness in an ultrathin regime (5-18 ML). The layer-dependent energy gap and transition temperature (T-c) show persistent quantum oscillations down to the lowest thickness without any sign of suppression. Moreover, by comparison with the quantum-well states measured above T-c and the theoretical calculations, we found that the T-c oscillation correlates directly with the density of states oscillation at E-F. The oscillation is manifested by the phase matching of the Fermi wavelength and the layer thickness, resulting in a bilayer periodicity modulated by a longer wavelength quantum beat.
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