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Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Dirty Two Band s± Superconductors

Tai-Kai Ng

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.236402 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

In this Letter, we study the effect of nonmagnetic impurities on two-band superconductors by deriving the corresponding Ginzburg-Landau equation. Depending on the strength of (impurity-induced) interband scattering, we find that there are two distinctive regions where the superconductors behave very differently. In the strong impurity-induced interband scattering regime Tc≪τt−1, where τt∼ mean lifetime an electron stays in one band, the two-band superconductor behaves as an effective one-band dirty superconductor. In the other limit Tc≥τt−1, the dirty two-band superconductor is described by a network of frustrated two-band superconductor grains connected by Josephson tunneling junctions, and the Anderson theorem breaks down.

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