Impurity effects on the±s-wave state of the iron-based superconductors

Yunkyu Bang, Han-Yong Choi, Hyekyung Won
2009 Physical Review B  
We study the impurity scattering on the ±s-wave superconductor, with realistic parameters for the Fe-pnictide superconductors. Using T-matrix method, generalized for the two bands, we found that impurity scattering of the unitary limit forms off-centered bound states inside of the superconducting gap, which modifies, surprisingly, the density of states (DOS) of a fully opened gap to a V-shaped one as in the case of a d-wave superconductor. This behavior provides coherent explanations to the
more » ... ral conflicting experimental issues of the Fe-pnictide superconductors: the V-shaped DOS but with an isotropic gap observed in the photoemission and tunneling experiments; the power law behavior of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate (1/T_1 ≈ T^α ; α≈ 3), down to very low temperatures.
doi:10.1103/physrevb.79.054529 fatcat:5y35io55x5edhndis6pgu6e36a