Abstract
We calculate the optical conductivity in an s-wave superconductor interacting with a low density of magnetic impurities. Interactions are treated beyond the Born approximation so that an impurity band develops inside the superconducting gap. We find that the contribution of these states to the low frequency conductivity is large, and that they have a clear spectroscopic signature which would would make them observable in conventional superconductors.
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