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The cuprate high-temperature superconductors are known to host a wide array of effects due to interactions and disorder. In this work, we look at some of the consequences of these effects which can be visualized by scanning tunneling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-02 Miguel Antonio Sulangi , Jan Zaanen

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

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

Impurity scattering in the unitary limit produces low energy quasiparticles with anisotropic spectrum in a two-dimensional $d$-wave superconductor. We describe a new {\em quasi-one-dimensional } limit of the quasiparticle scattering, which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 A. V. Balatsky , A. Rosengren , B. L. Altshuler

We calculate the infrared conductivity of a stack of coupled, two-dimensional superconducting planes within the Fermi liquid theory of superconductivity. We include the effects of random scattering processes and show that the presence of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. J. Graf , Mario Palumbo , D. Rainer , J. A. Sauls

The consequences of localized, classical magnetic moments in superconductors are explored and their effect on the spectral properties of the intragap bound states is studied. Above a critical moment, a localized quasiparticle excitation in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 M. I. Salkola , A. V. Balatsky , J. R. Schrieffer

It is shown on the basis of the Fermi liquid theory that the s-wave scattering potential due to nonmagnetic impurity is strongly enhanced by the mass enhancement factor $1/z$. As a result the impurity potential with moderate strength, of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroaki Ikeda , Kazumasa Miyake

The electron-electron scattering rate of low-energy quasiparticles is computed perturbatively for a two-dimensional metal with a partially nested Fermi surface, a weak electron-electron interaction and an energy-independent impurity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-26 Eliot Kapit

Theoretical model of a rough surface in a d-wave superconductor is studied for the general case of arbitrary strength of electron scattering by an impurity layer covering the surface. Boundary conditions for quasiclassical Eilenberger…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

We study a single impurity effect on the local density of states in a d-wave superconductor accounting for the momentum-dependent impurity potential. We show that the anisotropy of the scattering potential can alter significantly the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Pisarski , G. Haran

We study the impurity scattering on the $\pm$s-wave superconductor, with realistic parameters for the Fe-pnictide superconductors. Using $\mathcal{T}$-matrix method, generalized for the two bands, we found that impurity scattering of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Yunkyu Bang , Han-Yong Choi

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

Impurities with the pronounced forward scattering (FS impurities) change analytical properties of the quasiparticle Green's function substantially compared to the isotropic scattering. By assuming that the superconducting pairing is due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Danylenko , O. V. Dolgov , M. L. Kulic , V. Oudovenko

Effects of impurities and disorder on quasiparticle spectrum in superconducting iron pnictides are considered. Possibility for occurrence of localized energy levels due to impurities within the superconducting gap and the related…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Y. G. Pogorelov , M. C. Santos , V. M. Loktev

The self-consistent t-matrix approximation for impurity scattering in unconventional superconductors is used to interpret recent measurements of the temperature and frequency dependence of the microwave conductivity of YBCO crystals below…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Berlinsky , D. A. Bonn , R. Harris , C. Kallin

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

The single impurity effect on the graphene-based superconductor is studied theoretically. Four different pairing symmetries are discussed. Sharp resonance peaks are found near the impurity site for the $d+id$-wave pairing symmetry and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Yuan-Qiao Li , Tao Zhou

One of the remarkable features of disordered d-wave superconductors is strong sensitivity of long range properties to the microscopic realization of the disorder potential. Particularly rich phenomenology is observed for the --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Altland

The local differential tunneling conductance on a Zn impurity in a disordered d-wave superconductors is studied. Quantum interference between many impurities leads to definitive quasiparticle spectra. We suggest that an elaborate analysis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Hong-Yi Chen , Lingyin Zhu , C. S Ting

We examine the effect of a single, non-magnetic impurity in a multiband, extended s-wave superconductor allowing for anisotropy of the gaps on the Fermi surfaces. We derive analytic expressions for the Green's functions in the continuum and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Beaird , I. Vekhter , Jian-Xin Zhu