Impurity-induced bound states in iron-based superconductors with s-wave cos(kx)cos(ky) pairing symmetry

Details Impurity-induced bound states in iron-based superconductors with s-wave cos(kx)cos(ky) pairing symmetry Impurity-induced bound states in iron-based superconductors with s-wave cos(kx)cos(ky) pairing symmetry

2009-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0734v2

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064513 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

12 pages, 12 figures, published version with improved figures and updated references

Scientific paper

Using both the self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes formulation and non-self-consistent T-matrix approach, we perform a comprehensive investigation of the in-gap bound states induced by a localized single impurity in iron-based superconductors. We focus on studying signatures associated with the unconventional sign-changed s-wave pairing symmetry. For a non-magnetic impurity, we find that there are two in-gap bounds, symmetric with respect to zero energy, only in the sign changed s-wave pairing state, not in the sign-unchanged s-wave state, due to the existence of non-trivial Andreev bound states caused by the sign change. For a magnetic impurity, we find that due to the breakdown of the local time-reversal symmetry, there exist only bound state solutions (with orbital degeneracy) carrying one of the electron-spin polarizations around the impurity. As increasing the scattering strength, the system undergoes a quantum phase transition (level crossing) from a spin-unpolarized ground state to a spin-polarized one. While the results for the magnetic impurity are qualitatively similar in both the sign-changed and sign-unchanged s-wave superconducting states, the bound states in the first case are more robust and there is no $\pi$ phase shift of the SC gap near the impurity in the strong scattering regime.

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