Localization-delocalization transition of disordered d-wave superconductors with nonmagnetic impurities

Takahiro Fukui

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.62.R9279

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Localization-delocalization transition of disordered d-wave superconductors with nonmagnetic impurities

Takahiro Fukui

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.62.R9279 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

A lattice model for disordered d-wave superconductors with spin-rotational and time-reversal symmetries is reconsidered. Near the band center, the lattice model can be described by Dirac fermions with several species. Each fermion yields a Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) term for an effective action of the Goldstone mode, which is known to play a crucial role in critical phenomena in two dimensions. The WZW terms cancel out each other because of the fourfold symmetry of the model, which suggests that the quasiparticle states are localized. If the lattice model has, however, symmetry breaking terms which generate mass for any species of the Dirac fermions, remaining a WZW term which avoids the cancellation can derive the system to a delocalized strong-coupling fixed point.