Stimulation of superconductivity in $d$-wave superconductors

Aidan Steineman; Maxim Dzero

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Stimulation of superconductivity in $d$-wave superconductors

Aidan Steineman·Maxim Dzero

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We study the stimulation of superconductivity by an external electromagnetic radiation --- the Eliashberg effect --- in a disordered $d$-wave superconductor. We use the self-consistent Keldysh--Nambu quasiclassical formalism augmented by an inelastic relaxation term to compute the static correction to the pairing amplitude by treating elastic scattering within the Born approximation with the full second-order impurity vertex retained. We find that the clean $d$-wave superconductor shows no enhancement at any frequency: without a momentum relaxation channel a spatially uniform drive produces no absorption, only pair breaking. Elastic impurity scattering restores absorption and with it activates response in the Eliashberg channel. We find enhancement of the pairing amplitude which is confined to a bounded window in frequency, disorder strength, inelastic scattering rate and gap magnitude. Both edges of the window scale with the gap but are set by the competition between quasiparticle redistribution, heating and pair breaking rather than by a feature of the spectrum. Furthermore, in contrast to the $s$-wave when the threshold is pinned at $2Δ$, the upper edge is not pinned to the maximum gap and crosses it as the system approaches the critical temperature.

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Aidan Steineman, Maxim Dzero. 2026-09-23. Stimulation of superconductivity in $d$-wave superconductors. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28624

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