Density of states of a d-wave superconductor in the presence of strong impurity scatterers: A nonperturbative result

Catherine Pépin and Patrick A. Lee
Phys. Rev. B 63, 054502 – Published 3 January 2001
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Abstract

We present a method to compute the density of states induced by a finite density of nonmagnetic impurities in a d-wave superconductor, in the unitary limit of very strong scattering centers. For frequencies very small as compared to the superconducting gap (ωΔ0) the additional density of states has the leading divergence δρ(ω)ni/(|2ω|ln2|ω/Δ0|). This result is nonperturbative.

  • Received 16 February 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.054502

©2001 American Physical Society

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Catherine Pépin1,2 and Patrick A. Lee2

  • 1Department of Physics, Oxford University, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Physics, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Vol. 63, Iss. 5 — 1 February 2001

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