Critical disorder effects in Josephson-coupled quasi-one-dimensional superconductors

Details Critical disorder effects in Josephson-coupled quasi-one-dimensional superconductors Critical disorder effects in Josephson-coupled quasi-one-dimensional superconductors

2009-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/0911.1253v2

Published in JETP Lett. 91, 570 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

Effects of non-magnetic randomness on the critical temperature T_c and diamagnetism are studied in a class of quasi-one dimensional superconductors. The energy of Josephson-coupling between wires is considered to be random, which is typical for dirty organic superconductors. We show that this randomness destroys phase coherence between the wires and T_c vanishes discontinuously when the randomness reaches a critical value. The parallel and transverse components of the penetration depth are found to diverge at different critical temperatures T_c^{(1)} and T_c, which correspond to pair-breaking and phase-coherence breaking. The interplay between disorder and quantum phase fluctuations results in quantum critical behavior at T=0, manifesting itself as a superconducting-normal metal phase transition of first-order at a critical disorder strength.

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