Dirty two-band superconductivity with interband pairing order
Abstract
We study theoretically the effects of random nonmagnetic impurities on the superconducting transition temperature in a two-band superconductor characterized by an equal-time s-wave interband pairing order parameter. The Fermi-Dirac statistics of electrons allows a spin-triplet s-wave pairing order as well as a spin-singlet s-wave order parameter due to the two-band degree of freedom. In a spin-singlet superconductor, is insensitive to the impurity concentration when we estimate the self-energy due to the random impurity potential within the Born approximation. On the other hand in a spin-triplet superconductor, decreases with the increase of the impurity concentration. We conclude that Cooper pairs belonging to odd-band-parity symmetry class are fragile under the random impurity potential even though they have s-wave pairing symmetry.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.03443,
title = {Dirty two-band superconductivity with interband pairing order},
author = {Yasuhiro Asano and Akihiro Sasaki and Alexander A. Golubov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03443},
year = {2020}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures embedded