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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 63: Superconductivity: Theory
TT 63.6: Vortrag
Freitag, 31. März 2023, 10:45–11:00, HSZ 103
Simulating superconducting properties of overdoped cuprates: The role of inhomogeneity — Mainak Pal2, •Andreas Kreisel1, William A. Atkinson3, and Peter J. Hirschfeld2 — 1Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark — 2Department of Physics, University of Florida, USA — 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Trent University, Canada
Theoretical studies of disordered d-wave superconductors have focused, with a few exceptions, on optimally doped models with strong scatterers. Addressing recent controversies about the nature of the overdoped cuprates, however, requires studies of the weaker scattering associated with dopant atoms.
Here we study simple models of such systems in the self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) framework, and compare to disorder-averaged results using the self-consistent-T-matrix-approximation (SCTMA).
Despite surprisingly linear in energy behavior of the low-energy density of states even for quite disordered systems, the superfluid density in such cases retains a quadratic low-temperature variation of the penetration depth, unlike other BdG results reported recently. We trace the discrepancy to smaller effective system size employed in that work. Overall, the SCTMA performs remarkably well, with the exception of highly disordered systems with strongly suppressed superfluid density. We explore this interesting region where gap inhomogeneity dominates measured superconducting properties, and compare with overdoped cuprates.
[1] M. Pal, A. Kreisel, W.A. Atkinson, P.J. Hirschfeld arXiv:2211.13338 (2022)