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Kondo effect in gapless superconductors

Authors: , Borkowski; , Hirschfeld;

Kondo effect in gapless superconductors

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We present a self-consistent theory of Kondo impurities in gapless unconventional superconductors valid in the Fermi-liquid regime T\ensuremath{\lesssim}${\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{K}}$. The impurity degrees of freedom are treated using the large-N slave-boson technique, leading to tractable equations describing the interplay between the Kondo effect and superconductivity. We show that for a single impurity in a superconductor with density of states N(\ensuremath{\omega})\ensuremath{\sim}\ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\omega}${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Vert}}}^{\mathit{r}}$, there exists a critical coupling ${\mathit{J}}_{\mathit{c}}$ below which the Kondo effect does not occur. However, for r\ensuremath{\le}1 or N=2 any finite concentration of impurities drives ${\mathit{J}}_{\mathit{c}}$\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0. The theory provides microscopic support for phenomenological models of resonant impurity scattering in heavy-fermion systems.

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