Gastiasoro Maria N, Bernardini Fabio, Andersen Brian M
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
CNR-IOM-Cagliari and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Cagliari, 09042 Monserrato, Italy.
Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Dec 16;117(25):257002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.257002. Epub 2016 Dec 15.
We study the effects of disorder on unconventional superconductors in the presence of correlations, and explore a novel correlated disorder paradigm dominated by strong deviations from standard Abrikosov-Gor'kov theory due to generation of local bound states and cooperative impurity behavior driven by Coulomb interactions. Specifically we explain under which circumstances magnetic disorder acts as a strong poison destroying high-T_{c} superconductivity at the sub-1% level, and when nonmagnetic disorder, counterintuitively, hardly affects the unconventional superconducting state while concomitantly inducing an inhomogeneous full-volume magnetic phase. Recent experimental studies of Fe-based superconductors have discovered that such unusual disorder behavior seems to be indeed present in those systems.