Unusual Mechanism of Vortex Viscosity Generated by Mixed Normal Modes in Superconductors with Broken Time Reversal Symmetry

We show that under certain conditions, multiband superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry have a vortex viscosity-generating mechanism which is different from that in conventional superconductors. It appears due to the existence of a mixed superfluid phase-density mode inside the vortex core. This contribution is dominant near the time reversal symmetry-breaking phase transition. The results could be relevant for the three-band superconductor Ba1−xKxFe2As2