Magnetic impurity effect on superconductivity in systems with comparable Fermi and Debye energies

Abstract

We obtain the basic system of equations for a superconductivity theory of a system with a chaotically distributed paramagnetic substitution impurity in which the Migdal theorem is violated (the condition ω_D ≪E _F cannot be assumed). The electron-phonon and impurity diagrams and also the additional diagrams corresponding to intersections of the electron-phonon and electron-impurity lines are taken into account. In the weak electron-phonon coupling limit, we obtain an equation for the superconducting transition temperature T_C that differs from the corresponding equation for the usual superconductors by renormalizations of T_C0 and of the impurity scattering parameter, ρ. These quantities depend essentially on the Migdal parameter ω_D/E _F and on the transferred momentum q_c. We show that the decrease of T_C with the increase of the impurity concentration is slowed, as compared with usual superconductors, to an extent determined by m and q_c. We also evaluate the isotopic coefficient α, whose behavior as a function of the impurity concentration depends on m and q_c.