Effect of unitary impurities in non-STM-types of tunneling in high-T_c superconductors

Details Effect of unitary impurities in non-STM-types of tunneling in high-T_c superconductors Effect of unitary impurities in non-STM-types of tunneling in high-T_c superconductors

2000-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0001038v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 7 ps-figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B (Sep. 1, 2000); typos corrected, references added, figure 6 changed to expand

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.62.6027

Based on an extended Hubbard model, we present calculations of both the local (i.e., single-site) and spatially-averaged differential tunneling conductance in d-wave superconductors containing nonmagnetic impurities in the unitary limit. Our results show that a random distribution of unitary impurities of any concentration can at most give rise to a finite zero-bias conductance (with no peak there) in spatially-averaged non-STM type of tunneling, in spite of the fact that local tunneling in the immediate vicinity of an isolated impurity does show a conductance peak at zero bias, whereas to give rise to even a small zero-bias conductance peak in the former type of tunneling the impurities must form dimers, trimers, etc. along the [110] directions. In addition, we find that the most-recently-observed novel pattern of the tunneling conductance around a single impurity by Pan et al. [Nature (London) 403,746 (2000)] can be explained in terms of a realistic model of the tunneling configuration which gives rise to the experimental results reported there. The key feature in this model is the blocking effect of the BiO and SrO layers which exist between the tunneling tip and the CuO_2 layer being probed.

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