We present a vector recursion based approach to study the effect of disorder on superconductivity in a system modeled by the two-band attractive Hubbard model. We use the augmented space formalism for the disorder averaging. In the presence of only intraband pairing in a two-band disordered system with disorder in either or both bands, our calculations reveal that the gap survives in the quasiparticle spectrum; similar to single band systems. However, for interband pairing the gap in the quasiparticle spectrum ceases to exist beyond a critical value of the disorder strength. In the presence of both interband and intraband pairing interaction, depending on the relative magnitude of the pairing strength, only a particular kind of pairing is possible for a half filled two-band system.

• Received 26 May 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.174508