Electronic States and Energy Dissipations of Vortex Core in Pure FeSe Single Crystals Investigated by Microwave Surface Impedance Measurements

TL;DR

This study investigates the electronic states and energy dissipation mechanisms of vortex cores in pure FeSe superconductors using microwave surface impedance measurements, revealing a moderately clean vortex core contrary to expectations.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed microwave impedance analysis of vortex cores in pure FeSe, highlighting the moderately clean regime and suppressed mean-free path within the core.

Findings

Vortex core in pure FeSe is in the moderately clean regime.

Mean-free path inside the vortex core is suppressed at the core radius.

Small $ ext{ω}_0 au_{ ext{core}}$ value may be due to multiband effects and additional dissipation mechanisms.

Abstract

In order to clarify electronic states and energy dissipations due to a motion of a vortex core in pure FeSe, which is a candidate superconductor possessing a super-clean core, we measured the microwave surface impedance of pure FeSe single crystals under finite magnetic fields. From the magnetic-field dependence of the flux-flow resistivity, we found that a barometer of electronic states inside the vortex core $\omega_{0}\tau_{\rm core}$ is $1\pm0.5$, suggesting that the vortex core of pure FeSe is in the moderately clean regime contrary to the expectation of the super-clean core. We also found that the mean-free path inside the vortex core is suppressed at the distance of the order of the core radius. Based on observed results and previous reports, we discussed possible origins of rather small $\omega_{0}\tau_{\rm core}$ value in terms of the multiple-bands nature of FeSe and additional mechanisms producing extra energy dissipations specific to the vortex core in motion.