Effect of magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities on highly anisotropic superconductivity

Abstract

We generalize Abrikosov-Gor'kov solution of the problem of weakly coupled superconductors with impurities to the case of a multiband superconductor with arbitrary interband order parameter anisotropy, including interband sign reversal of the order parameter. The solution is given in terms of the effective (renormalized) coupling matrix and describes not only ${\mathrm{T}}_{\mathrm{c}}$ suppression but also renormalization of the superconducting gap basically at all temperatures. In many limiting cases we find analytical solutions for the critical temperature suppression. We illustrate our results by numerical calculations for two-band model systems.