Signatures of nodeless multiband superconductivity and particle-hole crossover in the vortex cores of FeTe0.55Se0.45
Christophe Berthod
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.144519 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Scanning tunneling experiments on single crystals of superconducting FeTe0.55Se0.45 have recently provided evidence for discrete energy levels inside vortices. Although predicted long ago, such levels are seldom resolved due to extrinsic (temperature, instrumentation) and intrinsic (quasiparticle scattering) limitations. We study a microscopic multiband model with parameters appropriate for FeTe0.55Se0.45. We confirm the existence of well-separated bound states and show that the chemical disorder due to random occupation of the chalcogen site does not affect significantly the vortex-core electronic structure. We further analyze the vortex bound states by projecting the local density of states on angular-momentum eigenstates. A rather complex pattern of bound states emerges from the multiband and mixed electron-hole nature of the normal-state carriers. The character of the vortex states changes from hole-like with negative angular momentum at low energy to electron-like with positive angular momentum at higher energy within the superconducting gap. We show that disorder in the arrangement of vortices most likely explains the differences found experimentally when comparing different vortices.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| FeTe0.55Se0.45 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | — | Pressure not reported | unknown |
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