Tail states in clean superconductors with magnetic impurities
Superconductivity
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We analyse the behavior of the density of states in a singlet s-wave superconductor with weak magnetic impurities in the clean limit. By using the method of optimal fluctuation and treating the order parameter self-consistently we show that the density of states is finite everywhere in the superconducting gap, and that it varies as near the mean field gap edge in a d-dimensional superconductor. In contrast to most studied cases the optimal fluctuation is strongly anisotropic.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206183,
title = {Tail states in clean superconductors with magnetic impurities},
author = {A. V. Shytov and I. Vekhter and I. A. Gruzberg and A. V. Balatsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206183},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, very minor changes, final version published in PRL