Impurity-induced subgap states in superconductors with inhomogeneous pairing
Superconductivity
2021-10-12 v1
Abstract
We study subgap states induced by a single impurity in an s-wave superconductor with suppressed pairing. For concreteness, we consider a bulk superconductor containing a normal spherical region. We find that a point impurity in this system induces two Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states inside the minigap instead of one, which one would have in a homogeneous superconductor. Moreover, the subgap states appear even if the impurity is nonmagnetic. We prove that this result actually holds almost for any superconductor with a real and spatially inhomogeneous order parameter, if the quasiparticle spectrum is gapped.
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@article{arxiv.2110.05288,
title = {Impurity-induced subgap states in superconductors with inhomogeneous pairing},
author = {A. A. Bespalov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05288},
year = {2021}
}
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20 pages, 6 figures