Abstract
We evaluate the superconducting fluctuation corrections to thermal conductivity in the normal state, which diverge as T approaches T-c. We find zero total contribution for one-, two- and three-dimensional superconductors for arbitrary impurity concentration. The method used is diagrammatic many-body theory, and all contributions-Aslamazov-Larkin (AL), Maki-Thompson (MT), and density of states (DOS)-are considered. The AL contribution is convergent, whilst the divergences of the DOS and MT diagrams exactly cancel.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 214505 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Physical Review B |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| Early online date | 1 Dec 2002 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2002 |