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We study Andreev states near atomic scale modulations in the pairing potential in both $s$- and d-wave superconductors with short coherence lengths. For a moderate reduction of the local gap, the states exist only close to the gap edge. If…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Brian M. Andersen , Ashot Melikyan , Tamara S. Nunner , P. J. Hirschfeld

We study the impurity effect in the time reversal symmetry (${\cal T}$) breaking superconductor based on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations. In ${\cal T}$-violating superconductors, spontaneous currents are induced around the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Yikihiro Okuno

We study impurity scattering in the normal and d-wave superconducting states of line nodal semimetals and show that, due to additional scattering phase space available for impurities on the surface, the quasiparticle interference pattern…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-03 Chandan Setty , Philip W. Phillips , Awadhesh Narayan

We investigate the impurity resonant state induced by non-magnetic impurities in d-wave cuprate superconductors in two different impurity models: (i) in a pure potential scattering model within the T-matrix approach and (ii) in a Bose-Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Marijana Kircan

There is strong support in favor of an unusual $s_{\pm}$ superconducting state in the new iron-based superconductors, in which the gap parameter has opposite signs in different bands. In this case scattering between different bands by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-19 A. Glatz , A. E. Koshelev

The local quasiparticle spectra around the vortex core of a d-wave superconductor in the mixed state is studied by solving the lattice Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations self-consistently. It is shown that in addition to the zero-energy states,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting , A. V. Balatsky

We present an {\it exact} quantum theory for the bound states in the vicinity of an edge or a line of impurities in a $d_{x^2-y^2}$ superconductor. For a (110)-surface we show that a finite dispersion of the one dimensional band of bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk K. Morr , Eugene Demler

The influence of the interference of electron waves, which were scattered by single impurities, on nonlinear quantum conductance of metallic microconstrictions (as was recently investigated experimentally) is studied theoretically. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Namiranian , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , A. N. Omelyanchouk

The two-component model of high temperature superconductors in its real space version has been solved using Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The disorder in the electron and boson subsystem has been taken into account. It strongly modifies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Krzyszczak , T. Domanski , K. I. Wysokinski , R. Micnas , S. Robaszkiewicz

We determine the effect of quasiparticle interference on the spatial variations of the local density of states (LDOS) in graphite in the neighborhood of an isolated impurity. A number of characteristic behaviors of interference are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristina Bena , Steven A. Kivelson

We studied the effects of nonmagnetic impurities on high-temperature superconductors by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations on a two-dimensional lattice via exact diagonalization technique in a fully self-consistent way. We found…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Bayindir , Z. Gedik

The diagrammatic approach is applied to study quasiparticle transport properties in two-dimensional d-wave superconductors with dilute nonmagnetic impurities both in Born and in unitary limits. It is found that a novel quantum interference…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. H. Yang , D. Y. Xing , M. Liu , Y. G. Wang

We develop a method to solve the Bogoliubov de Gennes equation for superconductors self-consistently, using the recursion method. The method allows the pairing interaction to be either local or non-local corresponding to s and d-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Martin , J. F. Annett

Disorder - impurities and defects violating an ideal order - is always present in solids. It can result in interesting and sometimes unexpected effects in multiband superconductors. Especially if the superconductivity is unconventional thus…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-11 M. M. Korshunov , Yu. N. Togushova , O. V. Dolgov

We investigate the multiquantum vortex states in type-II superconductor both in "clean" and "dirty" regimes defined by impurity scattering rate. Within quasiclassical approach we calculate self-consistently the order parameter distributions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-28 M. A. Silaev

Influence of weak nonmagnetic impurities on the single-particle density of states $\rho(\omega)$ of two-dimensional electron systems with a conical spectrum is studied. We use a nonperturbative approach, based on replica trick with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. A. Nersesyan , A. M. Tsvelik , F. Wenger

Motivated by quantum chemistry calculations, showing that molecular adsorption in graphene takes place on preferential sites of the honeycomb lattice, we study the effect of an isolated impurity on the local electronic properties of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

The pointlike impurity scattering is studied for a superconductor with different pairing symmetries based on a minimal two band model proposed by S. Raghu $et$ $al.$ [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 77}, R220503 (2008)], and the self-consistent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tao Zhou , Xiang Hu , Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

We present a theory of Kondo effect caused by an induced magnetic moment near non-magnetic impurities such as Zn and Li in the cuprate superconductors. Based on the co-existence of charge order and superconductivity, a natural description…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Kwon Park

We explore correlations of inhomogeneous local density of states (LDoS) for impure superconductors with different symmetries of the order parameter (s-wave and d-wave) and different types of scatterers (elastic and magnetic impurities). It…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-08 A. E. Koshelev , A. A. Varlamov