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JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
Volume 126, Issue 3-4, Pages 881-900Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013838523587
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We review work on the problem of disorder in the 2D d-wave superconducting state, and show that the symmetries of the normal state and the disorder distribution are vital for understanding the low-energy behavior. Most previous theoretical results for the density of states (DOS) are reconciled by a combination of exact numerical solutions of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations and weak localization calculations, which suggest that a novel diffusive mode with momentum (pi,pi) is responsible for a divergence of the DOS in the globally particle-hole symmetric case. We note briefly that the simple problem of a disordered tight-binding band of normal electrons displays some similar effects, which have been overlooked in the literature. Finally, in the physically realistic case of binary alloy disorder, no particle-hole symmetry, and an order parameter which is supressed around each impurity site, a power law with nonuniversal exponent is predicted.
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