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Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4783–4786 (2000)

Tail States in a Superconductor with Magnetic Impurities

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A. Lamacraft and B. D. Simons
Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, United Kingdom

Received 19 July 2000; published in the issue dated 27 November 2000

A field theoretic approach is developed to investigate the profile and spectrum of subgap states in a superconductor subject to a weak magnetic impurity potential. Such states are found to be associated with spatially inhomogeneous instanton configurations of the action.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4783
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4783
PACS:
74.62.Dh, 71.55.-i, 74.40.+k