Inherent inhomogeneities in tunneling spectra of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8x crystals in the superconducting state

Abstract
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy on cleaved BSCCO(2212) single crystals reveals inhomogeneities on length scales of 30Å. While most of the surface yields spectra consistent with a d-wave superconductor, small regions show a doubly gapped structure with both gaps lacking coherence peaks and the larger gap having a size typical of the respective pseudogap for the same sample.
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