Electronic States and Energy Dissipations of Vortex Core in Pure FeSe Single Crystals Investigated by Microwave Surface Impedance Measurements

Tatsunori Okada, Yoshinori Imai, Takahiro Urata, Yoichi Tanabe, Katsumi Tanigaki, Atsutaka Maeda

In order to clarify electronic states and energy dissipations due to a motion of a vortex core in pure FeSe, which is a candidate superconductor possessing a super-clean core, we measured the microwave surface impedance of pure FeSe single crystals under finite magnetic fields. From the magnetic-field dependence of the flux-flow resistivity, we found that a barometer of electronic states inside the vortex core ω0τcore is 1 ± 0.5, suggesting that the vortex core of pure FeSe is in the moderately clean regime contrary to the expectation of the super-clean core. We also found that the mean-free path inside the vortex core is suppressed at the distance of the order of the core radius. Based on observed results and previous reports, we discussed possible origins of rather small ω0τcore value in terms of the multiple-bands nature of FeSe and additional mechanisms producing extra energy dissipations specific to the vortex core in motion.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

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