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Pair-Breaking Effect in a van Hove Superconductor

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he pair breaking effect in the critical temperature has been considered. We showed that the decrease in the critical temperature can be described by an Abrikosov-Gorkov-like formula which contains the correction due to the van Hove density of states.

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Tifrea, I., Crisan, M. & Yoksan, S. Pair-Breaking Effect in a van Hove Superconductor. J Supercond 10, 503–506 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02767686

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