Pancake vortices
Superconductivity
2010-08-31 v3
Abstract
I describe the magnetic-field and current-density distributions generated by two-dimensional (2D) pancake vortices in infinite, semi-infinite, and finite-thickness stacks of Josephson-decoupled superconducting layers. Arrays of such vortices have been used to model the magnetic structure in highly anisotropic layered cuprate high-temperature superconductors. I show how the electromagnetic forces between pancake vortices can be calculatated, and I briefly discuss the effects of interlayer Josephson coupling.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0408371,
title = {Pancake vortices},
author = {John R. Clem},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0408371},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
16 pages, 4 figures, accepted in J. Supercond. for the Special Issue celebrating Michael Tinkham's 75th birthday, typos [notably in Eq. (67)] corrected