Tuesday, March 13, 2012

1203.2459 (Mikhail S. Kalenkov et al.)

Giant thermoeffect in superconductors with magnetic impurities    [PDF]

Mikhail S. Kalenkov, Andrei D. Zaikin, Leonid S. Kuzmin
We argue that parametrically strong enhancement of a thermoelectric current can be observed in conventional superconductors doped by magnetic impurities. This effect is caused by violation of the symmetry between electron-like and hole-like excitations due to formation of subgap quasi-bound Andreev states in the vicinity of magnetic impurities. We develop a quantitative theory of this effect and demonstrate that it can be detected in modern experiments.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2459

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