Effect of disorder on the far-infrared conductivity and on the microwave conductivity of tw.pdfVIP

8 Effect of disorder on the far-infrared conductivity 0 and on the microwave conductivity of two-band 0 2 r superconductors p A Boˇzidar Mitrovi´c 2 Department of Physics, Brock University, St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1 ] n E-mail: mitrovic@brocku.ca o c - Abstract. We consider the far-infrared and the microwave conductivities of a r p two-band superconductor with non-magnetic impurities. The strong coupling u expressions for the frequency and temperature dependent conductivity of a two- s . band superconductor are developed assuming isotropic bands and interactions. Our t a numerical results obtained using realistic interaction parameters for MgB2 are m compared with experiments on this compound. We find that the available experimental - results for the far-infrared conductivity of MgB2 are consistent with multi-band d n superconductivity in the presence of a sufficiently strong interband impurity scattering. o On the other hand, our numerical results for the microwave conductivity in the c [ superconducting state indicate that the experimental results obtained on samples with the highest transition temperature Tc are consistent with a low interband impurity 3 scattering rate but depend sensitively on the ratio of the total scattering rates in v 5 the two bands. For the π-band scattering rate γπ not greater than the σ-band scattering rate γ there is a single, broad, low-temperature (at about 0.5T ) coherence 5 σ c 3