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Collective modes in disordered s-wave superconductors

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Abstract

We investigate the effect of disorder and temperature on the two particle spectral function for s-wave superconductors, focusing on the evolution of the low energy collective Higgs and phase modes. We find that disorder creates a subgap Higgs mode and flattens the Goldstone mode. In the presence of weak disorder, the Higgs mode remains spectrally separated from phase modes for a large range of temperature, thereby making it a possible candidate to observe in energy resolved spectroscopies.

Presenters

  • Abhisek Samanta

    Physics, Technion

Authors

  • Abhisek Samanta

    Physics, Technion

  • Anirban Das

    Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  • Nandini Trivedi

    Ohio State Univ - Columbus, The Ohio State University, Physics, The Ohio State University, Department of Physics, Ohio State Univ - Columbus

  • Rajdeep Sensarma

    Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research