NONLINEAR QUANTUM EFFECTS IN NANOSUPERCONDUCTORS

Autor: Gerd Teniers, Victor Moshchalkov, C Carballeira, Arnout Ceulemans
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology.
DOI: 10.1142/9789812773210_0041
Popis: We have investigated superconductivity in thin mesoscopic regular polygons in a perpendicular magnetic field. For that, we have used an analytical gauge transformation for the vector potential which takes into account the superconductor/vacuum boundary condition. As reported previously, this has opened the way to investigate the nucleation of superconductivity in nanosu-perconductors at the normal-superconducting phase boundary in the framework of the linearized Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equations. We report now on the extension of this work to the superconducting phase beyond the phase boundary, by using the full non-linear GL equations. The stability in the superconducting phase of the symmetry induced vortex-antivortex molecules has been examined in detail for squared and equilateral triangle geometries.
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