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Validity of Anderson's theorem for s-wave superconductors

Superconductivity 2020-01-09 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We investigate validity of Anderson's theorem (AT) for disordered s-wave superconductors in a negative U Hubbard model with random on-site energies, ϵi\epsilon_{i}. The superconducting critical temperature, TcT_{c}, is calculated in the coherent potential approximation (CPA) as a function of impurity concentration, cc, the random potentials for different band filling. In contradiction to Anderson's theorem, we found that TcT_{c} is dramatically sensitive with respect to cc and ϵi\epsilon_{i}. Our results shows that for low impurity concentrations and weak on-site energies, ϵi\epsilon_{i}, the AT is valid, while in the strong scattering limit even for low impurity concentration, TcT_{c} is very small with respect to the clean system and by increasing cc it is completely suppressed, hence AT is violated in this regime.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0505092,
  title  = {Validity of Anderson's theorem for s-wave superconductors},
  author = {Rostam Moradian and Hamzeh Mousavi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0505092},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages and 5 figures