Impurity Scattering Rate and Coherence factor in Vortex Core of Sign-reversing s-wave Superconductors

TL;DR

This paper examines impurity scattering rates and coherence factors in vortex cores of sign-reversing s-wave superconductors to understand their internal phase differences using quasiparticle interference effects.

Contribution

It introduces a method to detect phase differences in multiband superconductors by analyzing impurity scattering rates and coherence factors in vortex cores.

Findings

Sign-reversed forward scatterings dominate in vortex cores.

Impurity scattering rates show characteristic distributions related to phase differences.

Comparison with s-wave and d-wave superconductors highlights unique features.

Abstract

We investigate the impurity scattering rates for quasi-particles in vortex cores of sign-reversing s-wave superconductors as a probe to detect the internal phase difference of the order parameters among different Fermi surfaces. The impurity scattering rates and coherence factors are related to quasiparticle interference effect by the scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy technique. With use of the Born and Kramer-Pesch approximations for the Andreev bound states, we show that the sign-reversed forward scatterings are dominant in vortex cores. Owing to the coherence factor in vortex cores of \pm s-wave superconductors, the impurity scattering rate of the Andreev bound states has a characteristic distribution on the Fermi surfaces. For comparison, the impurity scattering rates in vortex cores of s-wave and d-wave superconductors are also discussed.