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Unconventional Disorder Effects in Correlated Superconductors

Maria N. Gastiasoro, Fabio Bernardini, Brian M. Andersen

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.257002 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We study the effects of disorder on unconventional superconductors in the presence of correlations, and explore a novel correlated disorder paradigm dominated by strong deviations from standard Abrikosov-Gor’kov theory due to generation of local bound states and cooperative impurity behavior driven by Coulomb interactions. Specifically we explain under which circumstances magnetic disorder acts as a strong poison destroying high-Tc superconductivity at the sub-1% level, and when nonmagnetic disorder, counterintuitively, hardly affects the unconventional superconducting state while concomitantly inducing an inhomogeneous full-volume magnetic phase. Recent experimental studies of Fe-based superconductors have discovered that such unusual disorder behavior seems to be indeed present in those systems.

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SmFeAsO1-xFx

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