Change of the vortex core structure in two-band superconductors at impurity-scattering-driven $s_\pm/s_{++}$ crossover
Superconductivity
2017-10-11 v2
Abstract
We report a nontrivial transition in the core structure of vortices in two-band superconductors as a function of interband impurity scattering. We demonstrate that, in addition to singular zeros of the order parameter, the vortices there can acquire a circular nodal line around the singular point in one of the superconducting components. It results in the formation of the peculiar "moat"-like profile in one of the superconducting gaps. The moat-core vortices occur generically in the vicinity of the impurity-induced crossover between and states.
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@article{arxiv.1707.06412,
title = {Change of the vortex core structure in two-band superconductors at impurity-scattering-driven $s_\pm/s_{++}$ crossover},
author = {Julien Garaud and Mihail Silaev and Egor Babaev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06412},
year = {2017}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures