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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…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Huscroft , R. T. Scalettar

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…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Tom Schork , Peter Fulde

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Diganta Parai , Suchetana Pal , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-05-10 Yue Zou , Israel Klich , Gil Refael

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 Daniel Arean , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Antonello Scardicchio

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-12 Andrea Amoretti , Alessandro Braggio , Nicola Maggiore , Nicodemo Magnoli , Daniele Musso

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Bin Wang

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Balázs Dóra , Attila Virosztek , Kazumi Maki

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Tzu-Chieh Wei , David Pekker , Andrey Rogachev , Alexey Bezryadin , Paul M. Goldbart

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. N. Chernodub , E. -M. Ilgenfritz , A. Schiller

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-23 Shancheng Liu , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Massimo Siani

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 K. V. Samokhin

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Simon , C. M. Varma

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-06-16 T. K. Ng , Y. Avishai

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Tanaka , F Marsiglio

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-09 Jungseek Hwang

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 P. Wójcik , M. P. Nowak

Altermagnetic superconductors offer the possibility of exploring unconventional superconductivity, including topological states and finite-momentum superconductivity, with promising applications in spintronics and quantum information.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-22 Andrea Maiani , Rubén Seoane Souto

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Kikuo Harigaya