Thermodynamics of a retarded d-wave superconductor with resonant impurity scattering
Abstract
Using a formula for the free energy of an Eliashberg d-wave superconductor, which includes multiple impurity scattering, we study thermodynamic properties. Results are given for two values of the coupling strength between superconducting electrons and antiferromagnetic-spin fluctuations, which are assumed to stabilize the superconductivity. Various impurity-scattering strengths are considered both in the Born approximation and in the unitary limit and a comparison between the two cases is made.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- June 1993
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1993PhRvB..4715152P
- Keywords:
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- 74.20.Fg;
- BCS theory and its development