Impurity effects in unconventional density waves in the unitary limit

@article{Dora2003ImpurityEI,
  title={Impurity effects in unconventional density waves in the unitary limit},
  author={Bal'azs D'ora and Attila Virosztek and Kazumi Maki},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2003},
  volume={68},
  pages={075104}
}
We investigate the effect of strong, nonmagnetic impurities on quasi-one-dimensional conventional and unconventional density waves (UDW). The conventional case remains unaffected similarly to s-wave superconductors in the presence of weak, nonmagnetic impurities. The thermodynamic properties of UDW were found to be identical to those of a d-wave superconductor in the unitary limit. The real and imaginary part of the optical conductivity is determined for electric fields applied in the… 
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