Disorder effects in a multiband superconductor in the presence of competing order : Implications for underdoped pnictides

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Abstract

In unconventional superconductors superconductivity emerges at the onset of a magnetic order, and in many cases with a co-existing region of superconductivity and magnetism in the phase diagram. Here I consider the effect of disorder in a multiband superconductor appropriate for ferro-pnictide superconductors. I consider both interband and intraband scattering for a two band model within a self consistent T-matrix approximation. I calculate the effect of disorder on the critical temperature and on the low energy excitation spectrum in the superconducting state with different possible order parameters.

*This work was supported by the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US DOE, Office of Science, under Award No. DE-AC0298CH1088.

Authors

  • Vivek Mishra

    • Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439.
    • Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    • Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory