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arxiv: 1708.03443 · v2 · pith:Z2B2TRDZnew · submitted 2017-08-11 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con

Dirty two-band superconductivity with interband pairing order

classification ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con
keywords impurityorderpairings-waverandomsuperconductortwo-bandconcentration
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We study theoretically the effects of random nonmagnetic impurities on the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in a two-band superconductor characterized by an equal-time s-wave interband pairing order parameter. The Fermi-Dirac statistics of electrons allows a spin-triplet s-wave pairing order as well as a spin-singlet s-wave order parameter due to the two-band degree of freedom. In a spin-singlet superconductor, $T_c$ is insensitive to the impurity concentration when we estimate the self-energy due to the random impurity potential within the Born approximation. On the other hand in a spin-triplet superconductor, $T_c$ decreases with the increase of the impurity concentration. We conclude that Cooper pairs belonging to odd-band-parity symmetry class are fragile under the random impurity potential even though they have s-wave pairing symmetry.

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