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Magnetic impurity transition in a 'd+s'-wave superconductor

Superconductivity 2010-12-20 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We consider the superconducting state of d+sd+s symmetry with finite concentration of Anderson impurities in the limit Δs/Δd1\Delta_s/\Delta_d \ll 1. The model consists of a BCS-like term in the Hamiltonian and the Anderson impurity treated in the self-consistent large-NN mean field approximation. Increasing impurity concentration or lowering the ratio Δs/Δd\Delta_s/\Delta_d drives the system through a transition from a state with two sharp peaks at low energies and exponentially small density of states at the Fermi level to one with N(0)(Δs/Δd)2N(0) \simeq (\Delta_s/\Delta_d)^2. This transition is discontinuous if the energy of the impurity resonance is the smallest energy scale in the problem.

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@article{arxiv.0912.3700,
  title  = {Magnetic impurity transition in a 'd+s'-wave superconductor},
  author = {L. S. Borkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3700},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

3 pages, 2 figures, presented at the International Conference on Quantum Criticality and Novel Phases (QCNP09, Dresden)

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