On the linear response of Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer superconductors II: superconducting alloys
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S Wave
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The linear response to longitudinal modulations in a superconducting alloy is calculated for the general case. Extension to transverse waves, point-charge Coulomb potentials, and magnetic dipoles is trivial. All the results are limited to Born approximation, s-wave scattering by the impurities embedded in the superconductor. Derivation of the equations for linear response is the same as for clean superconductors, with the appearing correlation functions containing impurity-averaged vertex parts. Only one vertex part is evaluated here; the remaining ones are easy extensions of our calculation.