Quasiparticle density of states in dirty high-Tc superconductors

T. Senthil; Matthew P. A. Fisher

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.60.6893

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Quasiparticle density of states in dirty high-Tc superconductors

T. Senthil, Matthew P. A. Fisher

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.6893 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We study the density of quasiparticle states of dirty d-wave superconductors. We show the existence of singular corrections to the density of states due to quantum interference effects. We then argue that the density of states actually vanishes in the localized phase as |E| or E2 depending on whether time-reversal is a good symmetry or not. We verify this result for systems without time-reversal symmetry in one dimension using supersymmetry techniques. This simple, instructive calculation also provides the exact universal scaling function for the density of states for the crossover from ballistic to localized behavior in one dimension. Above two dimensions, we argue that in contrast to the conventional Anderson localization transition, the density of states has critical singularities which we calculate in a 2+ε expansion. We discuss consequences of our results for various experiments on dirty high-Tc materials.