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Collisionless dynamics in disordered superconductors

Superconductivity 2024-03-11 v2

Abstract

I consider relaxation of the pairing amplitude in a disordered Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductor in the absence of the two-particle collisions. My main assumption is that nonmagnetic and magnetic disorder scattering rates are much smaller than the value of the superconducting pairing gap Δ0\Delta_0. I derive a system of nonlinear equations which describe the collisionless relaxation of the pairing amplitude following a quench of the pairing strength. I find that in a superconductor in which scattering on paramagnetic impurities is dominant, the pairing amplitude in a steady state varies periodically with time even for small deviations from equilibrium. It is shown that such a steady state emerges due to scattering on paramagnetic impurities which leads to a decrease in the value of the resonant frequency of the amplitude mode below 2Δ02\Delta_0.

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@article{arxiv.2303.06750,
  title  = {Collisionless dynamics in disordered superconductors},
  author = {Maxim Dzero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06750},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

6 pages (main text) + 6 pages (supplementary materials), 5 figures

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