Effect of Born and unitary impurity scattering on the Kramer–Pesch shrinkage of a vortex core in a chiral p-wave superconductor

Abstract

We theoretically investigate a non-magnetic impurity effect on the temperature dependence of the vortex core shrinkage (Kramer–Pesch effect) in a chiral p-wave superconductor. The Born limit and the unitary limit scattering are compared within the framework of the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. We find that the robustness of the Kramer–Pesch effect against the impurity scattering in the Born limit is lost in the unitary limit.