Quasiparticle States around a Nonmagnetic Impurity in D-Density-Wave State of High-$T_c$ Cuprates

Abstract

Recently Chakravarty {\em et al.} proposed an ordered $d$-density wave (DDW) state as an explanation of the pseudogap phase in underdoped high-temperature cuprates. We study the competition between the DDW and superconducting ordering based on an effective mean-field Hamiltonian. We are mainly concerned with the effect of the DDW ordering on the electronic state around a single nonmagnetic impurity. We find that a single subgap resonance peak appears in the local density of state around the impurity. In the unitary limit, the position of this resonance peak is always located at $E_r=-\mu$ with respect to the Fermi energy. This result is dramatically different from the case of the pure superconducting state for which the impurity resonant energy is approximately pinned at the Fermi level. This can be used to probe the existence of the DDW ordering in cuprates.

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• Impurity induced resonant state in a pseudogap state of a high temperature superconductor
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