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Quantum interference in dirty d-wave superconductors

Hong-Yi Chen, Lingyin Zhu, C. S Ting

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0603302

Abstract

The local differential tunneling conductance on a Zn impurity in a disordered d-wave superconductors is studied. Quantum interference between many impurities leads to definitive quasiparticle spectra. We suggest that an elaborate analysis on impurity-induced spectra with quantum interference effect included may be able to pin down the sign and strength of the scattering potential of a Zn impurity in low density limit. Numerical simulations calculated with appropriately determined impurity parameters are in satisfactory agreement with the observations from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments even in subtle details.

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