Superfluid weight in disordered flat-band superconductors as a competition between localization functionals

Abstract: According to Anderson's theorem, the gap of a time-reversal symmetric weak-coupling superconductor is unaffected by non-magnetic disorder. However, the superfluid weight (stiffness) is reduced in the disordered limit by a factor of $\Delta \tau$, a product of the scattering time $\tau$ and the superconducting order parameter $\Delta$. Here we show that the opposite holds true in flat-band superconductors. While non-magnetic disorder does reduce the order parameter, we find that its direct effect on superfluid weight is mostly negligible. We show analytically that the effect of disorder is to lowest order given in terms of the difference between the intraband and interband parts of the localization functional of impurity wavefunctions, finding it to be typically vanishing.