Non-Magnetic Impurity induced in-gap bound states in two band $s_{\pm }$ superconductors

Abstract

In this paper we study the effect of single non-magnetic impurity in two-band s-wave superconductors where the two s-wave order parameters have relative phase $\delta \ne 0$ between them. We show that in-gap bound states are always induced by non-magnetic impurities when $\delta =\pi$ ($s_{\pm }$-wave superconductors). The bound state is a consequence of the topological nature of the corresponding Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation.

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