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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 lnN(E)EΔ0(7d)/4\ln N(E)\propto -|E-\Delta_0|^{(7-d)/4} near the mean field gap edge Δ0\Delta_0 in a d-dimensional superconductor. In contrast to most studied cases the optimal fluctuation is strongly anisotropic.

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@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