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Singular current response from isolated impurities in d-wave superconductors

Shan-Wen Tsai, P. J. Hirschfeld

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0203330

Abstract

The current response of a d-wave superconductor containing a single impurity is calculated and shown to be singular in the low-temperature limit, leading in the case of strong scattering to a 1/T term in the penetration depth λ(T) similar to that induced by Andreev surface bound states. For a small number of such impurities, we argue this low-T upturn could be observable in cuprate superconductors.

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