Universality of delocalization in unconventional dirty superconducting wires with broken spin-rotation symmetry

P. W. Brouwer, A. Furusaki, and C. Mudry
Phys. Rev. B 67, 014530 – Published 31 January 2003
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Abstract

In dirty superconducting wires, quasiparticle states at the Fermi level need not be exponentially localized if spin-rotation symmetry is broken [Brouwer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1064 (2000)]. Here we present evidence that not-localized states are generic in the thick-wire limit, while for wires of finite thickness delocalization requires fine tuning of the disorder, consistent with earlier results of Motrunich et al. [Phys. Rev. B 63, 224204 (2001)]. The thick-wire limit is defined as the simultaneous limit where the length L of the wire and the number N of propagating channels at the Fermi energy are both taken to infinity with their ratio held fixed.

  • Received 21 February 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.67.014530

©2003 American Physical Society

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P. W. Brouwer

  • Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501

A. Furusaki

  • Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

C. Mudry

  • Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

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Vol. 67, Iss. 1 — 1 January 2003

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