Local Josephson response near nonmagnetic impurities and vortices in a two-orbital s± superconductor
Abstract
We study the local Josephson response near nonmagnetic impurities and vortices in a self-consistent two-orbital s± superconductor. For a local s-wave tip that couples equally to the two orbitals, anomalous spectral contributions of opposite sign nearly cancel in the clean sample. Nonmagnetic impurities redistribute these contributions and can reverse the local coupling without a corresponding π phase shift of the bond pair fields. Negative coupling appears at off-center sites at weaker impurity potentials than at the impurity site. The impurity-induced change is concentrated at lower quasiparticle energies, while states over a broader energy range contribute to the total clean and impurity couplings. In zero field, the coupling also changes sign as the tip gap is varied, and increasing the tunneling strength can reverse the m=1 sine component of the current without changing the sample state. At the chosen coherence-peak energy, increasing impurity strength mainly changes the relative intensities of existing quasiparticle-interference features. In a self-consistent two-vortex state, the Josephson response develops a spatially varying phase relative to the condensate. The response and condensate share the winding close to each core, while larger loops enclose additional winding of the Josephson response. The local Josephson sign and phase reflect the anomalous spectrum and the tip--sample coupling.
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BibTeX
@misc{zhao2026local,
title = {{Local Josephson response near nonmagnetic impurities and vortices in a two-orbital $s_\pm$ superconductor}},
author = {Yuanyuan Zhao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.39192},
eprint = {2610.39192},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39192},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Local Josephson response near nonmagnetic impurities and vortices in a two-orbital s_± superconductor
AU - Yuanyuan Zhao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.39192
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39192
AB - We study the local Josephson response near nonmagnetic impurities and vortices in a self-consistent two-orbital s_± superconductor. For a local s-wave tip that couples equally to the two orbitals, anomalous spectral contributions of opposite sign nearly cancel in the clean sample. Nonmagnetic impurities redistribute these contributions and can reverse the local coupling without a corresponding π phase shift of the bond pair fields. Negative coupling appears at off-center sites at weaker impurity potentials than at the impurity site. The impurity-induced change is concentrated at lower quasiparticle energies, while states over a broader energy range contribute to the total clean and impurity couplings. In zero field, the coupling also changes sign as the tip gap is varied, and increasing the tunneling strength can reverse the m=1 sine component of the current without changing the sample state. At the chosen coherence-peak energy, increasing impurity strength mainly changes the relative intensities of existing quasiparticle-interference features. In a self-consistent two-vortex state, the Josephson response develops a spatially varying phase relative to the condensate. The response and condensate share the winding close to each core, while larger loops enclose additional winding of the Josephson response. The local Josephson sign and phase reflect the anomalous spectrum and the tip--sample coupling.
ER -