Quenched disorder formulation of the pseudo-gap problem

Abstract

The problem of pseudo-gap formation in an electronic system, induced by the fluctuations of the order parameter is revisited. We make the observation that a large class of current theories are theoretically equivalent to averaging the Free energy of the pseudo-gap system over a quenched-disordered distribution of the order parameter. We examine the cases of both infinite and finite correlation length, showing how the interplay of pseudo-gap formation and superconductivity can be treated in this approach.