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Effects of Disorder on Coexistence and Competition between Superconducting and Insulating States

M. V. Mostovoy, F. M. Marchetti, B. D. Simons, P. B. Littlewood

cond-mat.dis-nnarXiv:cond-mat/0408457

Abstract

We study effects of nonmagnetic impurities on the competition between the superconducting and electron-hole pairing. We show that disorder can result in coexistence of these two types of ordering in a uniform state, even when in clean materials they are mutually exclusive.

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