Interorbital pair scattering in clean and impure superconductors

Abstract

The calculations of the local and global properties of two band superconductors have been presented with particular attention to the role of the inter-orbital scattering of pairs. The properties of such superconductors are very different from a single band or typical two band systems with dominant intra-band pairing interactions. The role of Van Hove singularity in one of the bands on the properties of intra-band clean superconductor has been discussed. It leads to marked increase of superconducting transition temperature in the weak coupling limit. We study the inhomogeneous systems in which the characteristics change from place to place by solving the Bogolubov-de Gennes equations for small clusters. The suppression of the superconducting order parameter by the single impurity scattering the fermions between bands is contrasted with that due to intra-band impurity scattering. The results obtained for impure systems have been shown as a maps of local density of states, the order parameter and gap function. They can be directly compared with STM spectra of the real material.

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