Related papers: Impurity effect in a holographic superconductor
The half-filled attractive Hubbard model exhibits simultaneous charge density wave and superconducting order in its ground state. In this paper we explore the effect of disorder in the site energies on this degeneracy. We find that…
We consider a magnetic impurity which interacts by hybridization with a system of strongly correlated conduction electrons. The latter are described by a Hubbard Hamiltonian. By means of a canconical transformation the charge degrees of…
Analytical investigation of the properties of $s$-wave holographic superconductors in the background of a massive gravity theory in the probe limit has been carried out employing the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue method . We obtain the…
We investigate the influence of inhomogeneity in the pairing coupling constant $U(\vec r)$ on dirty BCS superconductors, focusing on $T_c$, the order parameter $\Delta(\vec r)$, and the energy gap $E_g(\vec r)$. Within mean-field theory, we…
We implement the effects of disorder on a holographic superconductor by introducing a random chemical potential on the boundary. We demonstrate explicitly that increasing disorder leads to the formation of islands where the superconducting…
We study a generalization of the standard holographic p-wave superconductor featuring two interacting vector order parameters. Basing our argument on the symmetry and linear response properties of the model, we propose it as a holographic…
We study the entanglement entropy as a probe of the proximity effect of a superconducting system by using the gauge/gravity duality in a fully back-reacted gravity system. While the entanglement entropy in the superconducting phase is less…
We investigate the effect of strong, nonmagnetic impurities on quasi-one-dimensional conventional and unconventional density waves (DW and UDW). The conventional case remains unaffected similarly to s-wave superconductors in the presence of…
Magnetic fields and magnetic impurities are each known to suppress superconductivity. However, as the field quenches (i.e. polarizes) the impurities, rich consequences, including field-enhanced superconductivity, can emerge when both…
We study the phase structure of a three dimensional Abelian Higgs model with singly- and doubly-charged scalar fields coupled to a compact Abelian gauge field. The model is pretending to describe systems of strongly correlated electrons…
We construct the holographic p-wave superfluid in Gauss-Bonnet gravity via a Maxwell complex vector field model and investigate the effect of the curvature correction on the superfluid phase transition in the probe limit. We obtain the rich…
We study a fully backreacted holographic model of a four-dimensional superconductor by including a higher curvature interaction in the bulk action. We study how the critical temperature and the field theory condensate vary in this model and…
We calculate the upper critical field, Hc2(T), due to the orbital pair breaking in disordered superconductors without inversion symmetry. Differences from the usual centrosymmetric case are highlighted. The linearized gap equations in…
We solve the problem of a magnetic impurity in a $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductor by a variational method. A moment is found to exist in the superconducting state only if the Kondo-temperature in the normal state is larger than the maximum…
In this paper we study the effect of single non-magnetic impurity in two-band s-wave superconductors where the two s-wave order parameters have relative phase $\delta\neq0$ between them. We show that in-gap bound states are always induced…
We study various inhomogeneity effects on superconductivity as due to quantum confinement, surfaces and impurities, using the self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism on the attractive Hubbard model. The results are also compared with…
We performed a reverse process of a usual optical data analysis of boson-exchange superconductors. We calculated the optical self-energy from two (MMP and MMP+peak) input model electron-boson spectral density functions using Allen's formula…
We analyze the superconducting gap in semiconductor/superconductor nanowires under orbital effects of a magnetic field in the weak- and strong-hybridization regimes using an universal procedure that guarantees the stationarity of the system…
Altermagnetic superconductors offer the possibility of exploring unconventional superconductivity, including topological states and finite-momentum superconductivity, with promising applications in spintronics and quantum information.…
Effects of the superconducting pair potential on the impurity scattering processes in metallic carbon nanotubes are studied theoretically. The backward scattering of electrons vanishes in the normal state. In the presence of the…