Anomalous impurity effects in nonadiabatic superconductors

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1998-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9812192v2

Europhys. Lett. vol.47 p.588 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

10 pages, euromacr.tex, europhys.sty, 6 figures. Replaced with accepted version (Europhysics Letters)

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i1999-00429-5

We show that, in contrast with the usual electron-phonon Migdal-Eliashberg theory, the critical temperature Tc of an isotropic s-wave nonadiabatic superconductor is strongly reduced by the presence of diluted non-magnetic impurities. Our results suggest that the recently observed Tc-suppression driven by disorder in K3C60 [Phys. Rev. B vol.55, 3866 (1997)] and in Nd(2-x)CexCuO(4-delta) [Phys. Rev. B vol.58, 8800 (1998)] could be explained in terms of a nonadiabatic electron-phonon coupling. Moreover, we predict that the isotope effect on Tc has an impurity dependence qualitatively different from the one expected for anisotropic superconductors.

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