Lifshitz Tail in the Density of States of a Superconductor with Magnetic Impurities
- 10 November 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 79 (19) , 3767-3770
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.3767
Abstract
We argue that any superconductor with magnetic impurities is gapless due to a Lifshitz tail in the density of states extending to zero energy. At low energy the density of states remains finite. We show that fluctuations in the impurity distribution produce regions of suppressed superconductivity, which are responsible for the low energy density of states.
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