Local Electronic Structure around a Single Impurity as a Test of Pairing Symmetry in (K,Tl)Fe$_{x}$Se$_{\rm 2}$ Superconductors

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2011-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3509v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4+ pages, 4 eps figures, revised version. To appear in Physical Review Letters

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We have studied the effect of a single nonmagnetic impurity in the recently discovered (K,Tl)Fe$_x$Se$_2$ superconductors, within both a toy two-band model and a more realistic five-band model. We have found that, out of five types of pairing symmetry under consideration, only the $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave pairing gives rise to impurity resonance states. The intra-gap states have energies far away from the Fermi energy. The existence of these intra-gap states is robust against the presence or absence of inter-band scattering. However, the inter-band scattering does tune the relative distribution of local density of states at the resonance states. All these features can readily be accessed by STM experiments, and are proposed as a means to test pairing symmetry of the new superconductors.

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