Longitudinal ultrasonic attenuation coefficient for high-T/sub K/ Kondo superconductors

Journal Article · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985 · J. Low Temp. Phys.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00682447· OSTI ID:5597517

Tang, I M

The ultrasonic attenuation coefficients for longitudinal waves in bulk superconductors containing high-T/sub K/ Kondo impurities and in proximity effect sandwiches containing the Kondo impurities in the normal layer are obtained using the Matsuura, Ichinose, and Nagaoka approach to treat the scattering by the Kondo impurities. The attenuation coefficients are obtained for temperatures close to T/sub c/ by suitably renormalizing th propagators and vertices appearing in the leading graphs in the expansion of te density--density correlation function appearing in the definition of the longitudinal attenuation coefficient for the case ql>>1. Closed-form expressions for the attenuation coefficient for the bulk superconductor case are obtained.

• Research Organization: Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
• OSTI ID: 5597517
• Journal Information: J. Low Temp. Phys.; (United States), Vol. 59:5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
SUPERCONDUCTORS
KONDO EFFECT
ULTRASONIC WAVES
ATTENUATION
CORRELATION FUNCTIONS
PROPAGATOR
PROXIMITY EFFECT
RENORMALIZATION
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
FUNCTIONS
SOUND WAVES
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