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Impact of $e-e$ interactions on the superfluid density of dirty superconductors

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-05-15 v3

Abstract

Landau's theory of the Fermi liquid is adapted to analyze the impact of electron-electron (eee-e) interactions on the deficit of the superfluid density ρs0=ρs(T=0)\rho_{s0}=\rho_s(T=0) in dirty superconducting electron systems in which the damping γ\gamma of single-particle excitations exceeds the zero temperature BCS gap Δ0\Delta_0. In the dirty strong-coupling limit γ/Δ01,m/me1\gamma/\Delta_0\gg 1,m^*/m_e\gg 1, the formula derived for ρs0\rho_{s0} is shown to coincide with the well-known empirical Uemura relation provided pair-breaking contributions are nonexistent. The roles of the crystal lattice and magnetic pair-breaking effects in the observed decline of the zero-temperature superfluid density ρs0\rho_{s0} in overdoped LSCO compounds are also discussed. Our method is also applied to elucidation of results from the pioneering experimental studies performed recently by Bozovi\`c and collaborators in overdoped LSCO compounds.

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@article{arxiv.1807.03866,
  title  = {Impact of $e-e$ interactions on the superfluid density of dirty superconductors},
  author = {V. A. Khodel and J. W. Clark and M. V. Zverev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03866},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure