TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of inelastic electron-electron scattering on branch imbalance relaxation
AU - Entin-Wohlman, O.
AU - Orbach, R.
PY - 1981
Y1 - 1981
N2 - The rate for branch-imbalance relaxation in a superconductor associated with inelastic electron-electron (Coulomb) scattering is derived, valid at arbitrary temperatures. The calculation is performed for clean superconductors, and shown to extend to cases where impurity scattering is important, using a technique of Schmid. As expected, for temperatures in the vicinity of Tc the form for the relaxation rate is identical with that arising from inelastic electron-phonon processes, if one replaces the inelastic electron-phonon scattering time with the inelastic electron-electron scattering time.
AB - The rate for branch-imbalance relaxation in a superconductor associated with inelastic electron-electron (Coulomb) scattering is derived, valid at arbitrary temperatures. The calculation is performed for clean superconductors, and shown to extend to cases where impurity scattering is important, using a technique of Schmid. As expected, for temperatures in the vicinity of Tc the form for the relaxation rate is identical with that arising from inelastic electron-phonon processes, if one replaces the inelastic electron-phonon scattering time with the inelastic electron-electron scattering time.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.24.1177
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.24.1177
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AN - SCOPUS:35949020691
SN - 0163-1829
VL - 24
SP - 1177
EP - 1180
JO - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
JF - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
IS - 3
ER -