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Impurity Effects on Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon Mode in a Vortex Core in Superconductors

Superconductivity 2015-12-15 v2

Abstract

We develop a scheme of Gor'kov Green's functions to treat impurity effects on Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon (CdGM) mode in superconductors (SCs) by improving the Kopnin-Kravtsov scheme with respect to the coherence factors and applicability to various SCs. We can study the impurity effects keeping the discreteness of the energy spectrum in contrast to the quasiclassical theory. We can thus apply this scheme to the SCs with the small quasiclassical parameter kFξ0k_{\mathrm{F}}\xi_{0} (which is the product of the Fermi wavenumber kFk_{\mathrm{F}} and the coherence length ξ0\xi_{0} in pure SC at zero temperature) and/or superclean regime Δminiτ1\Delta_{\mathrm{mini}} \tau \gg1 (Δmini\Delta_{\mathrm{mini}} and τ\tau denote, respectively, the level spacing of the CdGM mode called minigap and the relaxation time for CdGM mode and we take =1\hbar =1). We investigate the impurity effects as a white noise for a vortex in an s-wave SC and two types of vortices in a chiral p-wave SC, for various values of the quasiclassical parameters and impurity strengths (from moderately clean regime to superclean regime), and confirm the validity of this scheme.

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@article{arxiv.1505.02553,
  title  = {Impurity Effects on Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon Mode in a Vortex Core in Superconductors},
  author = {Yusuke Masaki and Yusuke Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02553},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures