Distinguishing d-wave from highly anisotropic s-wave superconductors

Details Distinguishing d-wave from highly anisotropic s-wave superconductors Distinguishing d-wave from highly anisotropic s-wave superconductors

1994-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9403021v2

Physical Review B 49, 15404 (1994)

Physics

Condensed Matter

5 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.49.15404

Systematic impurity doping in the Cu-O plane of the hole-doped cuprate superconductors may allow one to decide between unconvention al ("d-wave") and anisotropic conventional ("s-wave") states as possible candidates for the order parameter in these materials. We show that potential scattering of any strength always increases the gap minima of such s-wave states, leading to activated behavior in temperature with characteristic impurity concentration dependence in observable quantities such as the penetration depth. A magnetic component to the scattering may destroy the energy gap and give rise to conventional gapless behavior, or lead to a nonmonotonic dependence of the gap on impurity concentration. We discuss how experiments constrain this analysis.

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