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Quasiparticle damping in two-dimensional superconductors with unconventional pairing.

Condensed Matter 2010-05-19 v1

Abstract

We calculate the damping of excitations due to four-fermionic interaction in the case of two-dimensional superconductor with nodes in the spectrum. At zero temperature and low frequencies it reveals gapless ω3\omega^3 behavior at the nodal points. With the frequency increasing the crossover to the normal-state regimes appears. At high frequencies the damping strongly depends on details of a normal-state spectrum parametrization. Two important particular cases such as the models of almost free and tight-binding electrons are studied explicitly and the characteristic scales are expressed through the model-free parameters of the spectrum at the nodal points. The possibility of crossover in temperature dependence of damping in the superconducting phase is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9503112,
  title  = {Quasiparticle damping in two-dimensional superconductors with unconventional pairing.},
  author = {M. L. Titov and A. G. Yashenkin and D. N. Aristov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9503112},
  year   = {2010}
}

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16 pages, REVTEX 3, 3 figures