1110.5050 (N. Hayashi et al.)

Effect of Born and unitary impurity scattering on the Kramer-Pesch
shrinkage of a vortex core in an s-wave superconductor    [PDF]

N. Hayashi, Y. Higashi, N. Nakai, H. Suematsu

We theoretically investigate a non-magnetic impurity effect on the temperature dependence of the vortex core shrinkage (Kramer-Pesch effect) in a single-band s-wave superconductor. The Born limit and the unitary limit scattering are compared within the framework of the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. We find that the impurity effect inside a vortex core in the unitary limit is weaker than in the Born one when a system is in the moderately clean regime, which results in a stronger core shrinkage in the unitary limit than in the Born one.

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