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Effects of extended impurity perturbation in d-wave superconductor

Superconductivity 2009-11-10 v4

Abstract

We describe the effects of electronic perturbation distributed on nearest neighbor sites to the impurity center in a planar \textit{d}-wave superconductor, in approximation of circular Fermi surface. Alike the behavior previously reported for point-like perturbation and square Fermi surface, the quasiparticle density of states ρ(ϵ)\rho (\epsilon) can display a resonance inside the gap (and very weak features from low symmetry representations of non-local perturbation) and asymptotically vanishes at ϵ0\epsilon \to 0 as ρϵ/ln2ϵ\rho\sim\epsilon/\ln^2\epsilon. The local suppression of SC order parameter in this model is found to be somewhat weaker than for an equivalent point-like (non-magnetic) perturbation and much weaker than for a spin-dependent (extended) perturbation.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402199,
  title  = {Effects of extended impurity perturbation in d-wave superconductor},
  author = {Yu. G. Pogorelov and M. C. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402199},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures, some minor typos and the curves in Fig. 5 corrected