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arxiv: cond-mat/9912216 · v1 · submitted 1999-12-13 · ❄️ cond-mat

Effect of Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking on the Density of States in Small Superconducting Grains

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We show that in ultra-small superconducting grains any concentration of magnetic impurities or infinitely small orbital effect of magnetic field leads to destruction of the hard gap in the tunneling density of states. Instead, though exponentially suppressed at low energies, the tunneling density of states exhibits the ``soft gap'' behavior, vanishing linearly with excitation energy, as the energy approaches zero.

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