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Meissner Effect from Landau Problem

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-01-30 v1

Abstract

The Landau problem for inhomogeneous magnetic fields is examined in a very general context and several interesting analogies with the Nielsen-Olesen vortices are established. Firstly we show that the Landau problem with non-homogeneous magnetic fields exhibits Meissner effect that is unstable unless two-body interactions are added and vortices emerge. Using the scaling freedom we can write the Schr\"odinger equation in terms of the scales ratio κ=E/m1T/Tc\kappa ={ E}/{ m }\propto 1- T/T_c where the last identification is realised simply by using the Gizburg-Landau theory. We find our equations are valid in the superconducting regime, and it is not possible for the Cooper pairs amplitude to reach to a constant, non-zero value, and therefore the theory is unstable. The supersymmetric quantum mechanics version, by completeness, is also considered.

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@article{arxiv.1810.05671,
  title  = {Meissner Effect from Landau Problem},
  author = {Paola Arias and J. Gamboa and F. Méndez and David Valenzuela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05671},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, two columns, 1 figure. Comments welcomed

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