journal article·2007-03Open access

Nonlocal effect of local nonmagnetic impurity in high- superconductors: Induced local moment and huge residual resistivity

Hiroshi Kontani, Masanori Ohno

Abstract

We study a Hubbard model with a strong onsite impurity potential based on an improved fluctuation-exchange (FLEX) approximation, which we call the GVI-FLEX method. We find that (i) both local and staggered susceptibilities are strongly enhanced around the impurity. By this reason, (ii) the quasiparticle lifetime as well as the local density of states (DOS) are strongly suppressed in a wide area around the impurity (like a Swiss cheese hole), which causes the ``huge residual resistivity'' beyond the s-wave unitary scattering value. These results by the GVI method naturally explains the various impurity effects in HTSC's in a unified way, which had been a long-standing theoretical problem.
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OpenAlex topics: Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism · Organic and Molecular Conductors Research · Rare-earth and actinide compounds

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