Influence of Disorder on Superconducting Correlations in Nanoparticles

Autor: François M. Peeters, Milorad V. Milošević, Vollrath M. Axt, Andrey S. Vasenko, A. A. Shanenko, Mikhail D. Croitoru, Alexei Vagov
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Journal of superconductivity and novel magnetism
ISSN: 1557-1947
1557-1939
DOI: 10.1007/s10948-015-3319-8
Popis: We investigate how the interplay of quantum confinement and level broadening caused by disorder affects superconducting correlations in ultra-small metallic grains. We use the electron-phonon interaction-induced electron mass renormalization and the reduced static-path approximation of the BCS formalism to calculate the critical temperature as a function of the grain size. We show how the strong electron-impurity scattering additionally smears the peak structure in the electronic density of states of a metallic grain and imposes additional limits on the critical temperature under strong quantum confinement.
Databáze: OpenAIRE