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Thermodynamics and response of a spin-charge-separated superconductor

A. Sudbo/, J. M. Wheatley

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.52.6200 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Thermodynamic and transport properties of a weak-coupling isotropic s-wave superconductor with a spin-charge separated normal state, are described. Tc and the gap parameter Δ(T) are enhanced by spin-charge separation. The ratio 2Δ(0)/kBTc is nonuniversal. Incoherent spectral weight is present below the gap, leading to a superconducting quasiparticle density of states N(ω)∼ω2, ‖ω‖≪Δ. For T/Tc≪1, power-law temperature corrections O(T4) to the gap, superfluid density, and Josephson critical current are found. Spin-charge separation leads to a normal fluid density which is nonvanishing at zero temperature, even in the clean limit. The conductance is nonzero at finite frequency in the superconducting state; in particular there is a sharp onset when ω>Δ.

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