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We consider a noninteracting disordered system designed to model particle diffusion, relaxation in glasses, and impurity bands of semiconductors. Disorder originates in the random spatial distribution of sites. We find strong numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Jacob J. Krich , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We introduce a hierarchy of density of states to characterize the charge distribution in a mesoscopic conductor. At the bottom of this hierarchy are the partial density of states which represent the contribution to the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Markus Buttiker

As a function of the disorder strength in a mesoscopic system, the electron dynamics crosses over from the ballistic through the diffusive towards the localized regime. The ballistic and the localized situation correspond to integrable or…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Dietmar Weinmann , Sigmund Kohler , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Hänggi

We combine the BCS self-consistency condition, a semiclassical expansion for the spectral density and interaction matrix elements to describe analytically how the superconducting gap depends on the size and shape of a 2d and 3d…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia , Juan Diego Urbina , Emil A. Yuzbashyan , Klaus Richter , Boris L. Altshuler

The density of states modulation recently observed by the scanning tunneling microscopic experiment in the pseudogap state of high-$T_c$ superconductors is explained by the pairing assisted particle transitions under perturbation of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-23 Xin-Zhong Yan

Reflection of particles from a disordered or chaotic medium is characterized by a scattering matrix that can be represented as a superposition of resonances. Each resonance corresponds to an eigenstate inside the medium and has a width…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-23 M. S. Kurilov , P. M. Ostrovsky

Magnet-superconductor hybrid heterostructures constitute a promising candidate system for the quantum engineering of chiral topological superconductivity. Here, we investigate the stability of their topological phases in the presence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-11 Eric Mascot , Chaitra Agrahar , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

The results of calculations of the spatially-resolved density of states (DoS) in an S(F/N) bilayer are presented (S is a superconductor, F is a metallic ferromagnet, N is a normal metal) within quasiclassical theory in the dirty limit.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , M. Siegel

We develop a powerful numerical algorithm for calculating the density of states rho(omega) of the fluctuating gap model, which describes the low-energy physics of disordered Peierls and spin-Peierls chains. We obtain rho(omega) with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Lorenz Bartosch , Peter Kopietz

The symmetry of the superconducting order parameter, or simply the ``gap'', provides certain constraints on the actual mechanism that gives rise to pairing and ultimately to superconductivity. In this work we show how superconducting phases…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-14 Pramodh Senarath Yapa , Xinyu Guo , Joseph Maciejko , Frank Marsiglio

High-Tc superconducting materials (HTSC) have anomalous properties such as the pseudo-gap or spin-gap etc., in Hall coefficient, 1/T1T and the density of states etc. First including effects of strong on-site repulsion between d-electrons at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Akito Kobayashi , Atsushi Tsuruta , Tamifusa Matsuura , Yoshihiro Kuroda

We study the effect of disorder symmetry in a disordered s-wave superconductor. We begin with an attractive Hubbard model on a two-dimensional square lattice in the presence of diagonal- and off-diagonal disorder. The model is studied…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-11 Sanjeev Kumar , Prabuddha B. Chakraborty

We study the electronic structure within a system of phase-decoupled one-dimensional superconductors coexisting with stripe spin and charge density wave order. This system has a nodal Fermi surface (Fermi arc) in the form of a hole pocket…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-08 M. Granath , B. M. Andersen

We investigate superconducting proximity effect in clean ferromagnetic layers with rough boundaries. The subgap density of states is formed by Andreev bound states at energies which depend on trajectory length and the ferromagnetic exchange…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Zareyan , W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

We have reexamined the problem of disorder in two-band superconductors, and shown within the framework of the T-matrix approximation, that the suppression of T_c can be described by a single parameter depending on the intraband and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 D. V. Efremov , M. M. Korshunov , O. V. Dolgov , A. A. Golubov , P. J. Hirschfeld

We study delocalization transition in a one-dimensional electron system with quenched disorder by using supersymmetric (SUSY) methods. Especially we focus on effects of nonlocal correlation of disorder, for most of studies given so far…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Ikuo Ichinose , Masaomi Kimura

We present a phase diagram as a function of disorder in three-dimensional NbN thin films, as the system enters the critical disorder for the destruction of the superconducting state. The superconducting state is investigated using a…

The existence of a normal state spectral gap in underdoped cuprates raises important questions about the associated superconducting phase. For example, how does this pseudogap evolve into its below Tc counterpart? In this paper we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioan Kosztin , Qijin Chen , Boldizsar Janko , K. Levin

We investigate pseudogap phenomena in the unitarity limit of a trapped superfluid Fermi gas. Including effect of strong pairing fluctuations within a $T$-matrix approximation, as well as effects of a harmonic trap within the local density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-28 Ryota Watanabe , Shunji Tsuchiya , Yoji Ohashi

This review is intended to give a pedagogical and unified view on the subject of the statistics and scaling of physical quantities in disordered electron systems at very low temperatures. Quantum coherence at low temperatures and randomness…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Martin Janssen