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The BCS picture of superconductivity describes pairing between electrons originating from a single band. A generalization of this picture occurs in multi-band superconductors, where electrons from two or more bands contribute to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-23 Yilikal Ayino , Jin Yue , Tianqi Wang , Bharat Jalan , Vlad S. Pribiag

We consider the far-infrared and the microwave conductivities of a two-band superconductor with non-magnetic impurities. The strong coupling expressions for the frequency and temperature dependent conductivity of a two-band superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Bozidar Mitrovic

We apply the Coherent Potential Approximation (CPA) to an extended Hubbard model to describe disordered superconductors with d-wave pairing. We discuss the pair-breaking effect caused by non-magneticdisorder in presence of Van Hove…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Grzegorz Litak

We calculate the relaxation rate of a nuclear spin in s-wave superconductor with nonmagnetic impurities, including the strong-coupling effects. We show that in a weakly disordered three-dimensional system the corrections due to disorder are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 K. V. Samokhin , B. Mitrovic

We report on experimental study of the effect of disorder on electronic parameters and inelastic scattering mechanisms in ultrathin superconducting NbN films, which are commonly used in single-photon detectors. An increase in disorder in…

The response of ultra-thin superconducting materials under parallel magnetic fields is often leveraged to obtain insight into the nature of the condensate, including features attributable to unconventional forms of pairing. Despite there…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-08 Reiley Dorrian , Mizuki Ohno , Elena Williams , Adrian Llanos , Joseph Falson

We propose the ``pair-breaking scattering interference" as a general source of coherence peak modulations in superconductors. Assuming this mechanism, we present a simple physical picture for the coherence peak modulations in overdoped…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-16 Zhi-Qiang Gao , Yu-Ping Lin , Dung-Hai Lee

Experiments on disordered superconducting thin films have revealed a magnetoresistance peak of several orders of magnitude. Starting from the disordered negative-U Hubbard model, we employ an ab initio approach that includes thermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-15 G. J. Conduit , Yigal Meir

Nonmagnetic impurity scattering is known to shift up the Ginzburg-Landau parameter $\kappa$ of a superconductor. In this case, when the system is initially in type I, it can change its magnetic response, crossing the intertype domain with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-22 P. M. Marychev , A. A. Shanenko , A. Vagov

We study the effect of site diagonal, non-magnetic, disorder on the a pairing amplitude in an extended Hubbard model with the intersite attraction. Analyzing fluctuations of a pairing potential we discuss the instability of mixed solutions,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Litak

We consider a two-dimensional disordered conductor in the regime when the superconducting phase is destroyed by the magnetic field. We analyze a combination of fluctuations of different origin which results in an effective interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-28 Vladimir A. Zyuzin , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

We study the effect of site diagonal disorder on the pairing amplitude by a perturbation method. Using an extended Hubbard model with the intersite attraction we analyze fluctuations of order parameter in presence of non-magnetic disorder…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Litak

The structural or electronic symmetry breaking of the host lattice is a recurrent phenomenon in many quantum materials, including superconductors. Yet, how these broken symmetry states affect the electronic pair wave function of…

Pair density wave superconductivity constitutes a novel electronic condensate proposed to be realized in certain unconventional superconductors. Establishing its potential existence is important for our fundamental understanding of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-25 M. H. Christensen , H. Jacobsen , T. M. Maier , B. M. Andersen

Compensated magnetic orders that can split the spin-degeneracy of electronic bands have become a very active field of research. As opposed to spin-orbit coupling, the splitting resulting from these "altermagnets" is not a small relativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Saurav Sachin , Mathias S. Scheurer , Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna

In the theory of dilute magnetic impurities in superconductors, the effect of all impurity spin-components is expressed via a single magnetic scattering rate $\Gamma_\mathrm{m}$. In a more realistic setting, magnetic impurities are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-05 David Möckli , Menashe Haim , Maxim Khodas

Employing a renormalization group analysis that allows for an unbiased treatment of competing physical ingredients, we systematically trace how the interplay between Cooper pairing and disorder scatterings governs the emergence or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-27 Hua Zang , Jing Wang

We investigate the effects of disorder on a system that in the clean limit is a pair density wave (PDW) superconductor. The charge order of the clean PDW is inevitably lost (via Imry-Ma), but the fate of the superconducting order is less…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 Julian May-Mann , Akshat Pandey , Steven A. Kivelson

In this paper we present normal state magnetoresistivity data of magnesium diboride epitaxial thin films with different levels of disorder, measured at 42K in magnetic fields up to 45 Tesla. Disorder was introduced in a controlled way…

It is usually believed that the spin-fluctuation mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity results in d-wave pairing, and that it is destructive for the conventional phonon-mediated pairing. We show that in bilayer materials, due to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. I. Liechtenstein , I. I. Mazin , O. K. Andersen