Absence of singular superconducting fluctuation corrections to thermal conductivity

Douglas R. Niven, Robert A. Smith
2002 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)  
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.
doi:10.1103/physrevb.66.214505 fatcat:o7y4dobiivchjkyi4tzehqkxke