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Specific heat jump at superconducting transition in the presence of Spin-Density-Wave in iron-pnictides
We analyze the magnitude of the specific heat jump \Delta C at the
superconducting transition temperature T_c in the situation when
superconductivity develops in the pre-existing antiferromagnetic phase. We show
that \Delta C/T_c differs from the BCS value and is peaked at the tri-critical
point where this coexistence phase first emerges. Deeper in the magnetic phase,
the onset of coexistence, T_c, drops and \Delta C/T_c decreases, roughly as
\Delta C/T_c \propto T^2_c at intermediate T_c and exponentially at the lowest
T_c, in agreement with the observed behavior of \Delta C/T_c in iron-based
superconductors.Comment: 4+ pages, 3 figure
Differential conductance of point contacts between an iron-based superconductor and a normal metal
We present a theoretical description of the differential conductance of point
contacts between a normal metal and a multi-band superconductor with extended
s\pm pairing symmetry. We demonstrate that the interband impurity scattering
broadens the coherent peak near the superconducting gap and significantly
reduces its height even at relatively low scattering rates. This broadening is
consistent with a number of recent experiments performed for both tunnel
junctions and larger diffusive contacts. Our theory helps to better evaluate
the energy gap of iron-based superconductors from point contact Andreev
spectroscopy measurements.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
The yoga of commutators
In the present paper we discuss some recent versions of localisation methods
for calculations in the groups of points of algebraic-like and classical-like
groups. Namely, we describe relative localisation, universal localisation, and
enhanced versions of localisation-completion. Apart from the general strategic
description of these methods, we state some typical technical results of the
conjugation calculus and the commutator calculus. Also, we state several recent
results obtained therewith, such as relative standard commutator formulae,
bounded width of commutators, with respect to the elementary generators, and
nilpotent filtrations of congruence subgroups. Overall, this shows that
localisation methods can be much more efficient, than expected
Enhancement of by disorder in underdoped iron pnictides
We analyze how disorder affects the transition temperature of the
superconducting state in the iron pnictides. The conventional wisdom is
that should rapidly decrease with increasing inter-band non-magnetic
impurity scattering, but we show that this behavior holds only in the overdoped
region of the phase diagram. In the underdoped regime, where superconductivity
emerges from a pre-existing magnetic state, disorder gives rise to two
competing effects: breaking of the Cooper pairs, which tends to reduce ,
and suppression of the itinerant magnetic order, which tends to bring
up. We show that for a wide range of parameters the second effect wins, leading
to an increase of with disorder in the coexistence state. Our results
explain several recent experimental findings and provide another evidence for
-pairing in the iron pnictides.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; revised version accepted in PRB-R
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