On the Lifshitz tail in the density of states of a superconductor with magnetic impurities
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- 10 May 1997
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 $\nu(E \to 0)$ 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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- Version 1, 1997-05-10, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review Letters, 79 (19), 3767.