Magnetic behaviour of dirty multiband superconductors near the upper critical field

TL;DR

This paper investigates the magnetic properties of dirty multiband superconductors near the upper critical field, highlighting how their behavior varies with temperature and multiband effects, especially in materials like MgB$_2$ and iron-based superconductors.

Contribution

It reveals the significant temperature dependence of the parameter $$ and its sensitivity to pairing interactions and impurity scattering in multiband superconductors.

Findings

$$ varies significantly with temperature and is sensitive to multiband effects.

Increased $$ at low temperatures can be arbitrarily large due to diffusion coefficient ratios.

Temperature dependence of $(T)$ is more sensitive to multiband effects than $H_{c2}(T)$.

Abstract

Magnetic properties of dirty multiband superconductors near the upper critical field are studied. The parameter $\kappa_2$ characterizing magnetization slope is shown to have a significant temperature variation which is quite sensitive to the pairing interactions and relative strengths of intraband impurity scattering. In contrast to single-band superconductors the increase of $\kappa_2$ at low temperatures can be arbitrary large determined by the ratio of minimal and maximal diffusion coefficients in different bands. Temperature dependencies of $\kappa_2(T)$ in two-band MgB$_2$ and iron-based superconductors are shown to be much more sensitive to the multiband effects than the upper critical field $H_{c2}(T)$.