Fermion zero modes on vortices in chiral superconductors
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- 26 October 1999
Abstract
The energy levels of the fermions bound to the vortex core are considered for the general case of chiral superconductors. There are two classes of chiral superconductivity: in the superconducting state of class I the axisymmetric singly quantized vortex has the same energy spectrum of bound states as in s-wave superconductor: E=(n+1/2)\omega_0 with integral n. In the class II the corresponding spectrum is E=n\omega_0 and thus contains the state with exactly zero energy. The effect of a single impurity on the spectrum of bound state is also considered. For the class I the spectrum acquires the double period \Delta E=2\omega_0 and consists of two equidistant sets of levels in accordance with A.I. Larkin and Yu.N. Ovchinnikov, Phys. Rev. B57 (1998) 5457. The spectrum is not influenced by a single impurity if the same approximation is applied for vortices in the class II superconducting states.Keywords
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- Published version: JETP Letters, 70 (9), 609.
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