Vortex charge in mesoscopic superconductors
Superconductivity
2009-10-31 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
The electric charge density in mesoscopic superconductors with circular symmetry, i.e. disks and cylinders, is studied within the phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau approach. We found that even in the Meissner state there is a charge redistribution in the sample which makes the sample edge become negatively charged. In the vortex state there is a competition between this Meissner charge and the vortex charge which may change the polarity of the charge at the sample edge with increasing magnetic field. It is shown analytically that in spite of the charge redistribution the mesoscopic sample as a whole remains electrically neutral.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0011301,
title = {Vortex charge in mesoscopic superconductors},
author = {S. V. Yampolskii and B. J. Baelus and F. M. Peeters and J. Kolacek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0011301},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. B