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We calculate the effective mass of a single quantized vortex in the BCS superconductor at finite temperature. Based on effective action approach, we arrive at the effective mass of a vortex as integral of the spectral function $J(\omega)$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Jung Hoon Han , June Seo Kim , Min Jae Kim , Ping Ao

We present here a calculation of the inertial mass of a moving vortex in cuprate superconductors. This is a poorly known basic quantity of obvious interest in vortex dynamics. The motion of a vortex causes a dipolar density distortion and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 D. M. Gaitonde , T. V. Ramakrishnan

An inertial mass of a vortex can be calculated by driving it round in a circle with a steadily revolving pinning potential. We show that in the low frequency limit this gives precisely the same formula that was used by Baym and Chandler,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 D. J. Thouless , J. R. Anglin

In two dimensions a microscopic theory providing a basis for the naive analogy between a quantized vortex in a superfluid and an electron in a uniform magnetic field is presented. Following the variational approach developed by Peierls,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Ming Tang

The very-low temperature thermal effective mass m* of paramagnetic and ferromagnetic electrons in a uniform electron fluid in two dimensions is studied. Analytical and numerical evaluations are used to meaningfully define an m*, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

The topological term in the effective action for the electrically neutral BCS system is discussed. It is applied for the calculation of the transverse force acting on the vortex in the limit of the smooth vortex core and vanishing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 G. E. Volovik

We describe the influence of the gapless, nodal, fermionic quasiparticles of a two-dimensional d-wave superconductor on the motion of vortices. A continuum, functional formalism is used to obtain the effective vortex action, after the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-16 Predrag Nikolic , Subir Sachdev

Vortices and vortex arrays have been used as a hallmark of superfluidity in rotated, ultracold Fermi gases. These superfluids can be described in terms of an effective field theory for a macroscopic wave function representing the field of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-21 S. N. Klimin , J. Tempere , N. Verhelst , M. V. Milošević

We have combined high resolution magneto-optical imaging with an ultra-fast heating/cooling technique to measure the movement of individual vortices in a superconducting film. The motion took place while the film was heated close to $T_c$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-13 Daniel Golubchik , Emil Polturak , Gad Koren

Vortex mass is a key concept in the study of superfluid dynamics, referring to the inertia of vortices in a superfluid, which affects their motion and behavior. Despite being an important quantity, the vortex mass has never been observed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-08 Lucas Levrouw , Hiromitsu Takeuchi , Jacques Tempere

We calculate the dynamic vortex mass for clean Fermi superfluids including both s- and d-wave superconductors as a response to a vortex acceleration. Assuming a finite quasiparticle mean free time, the vortex mass appears to be a tensor.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 N. B. Kopnin , V. M. Vinokur

Vortex mass in Fermi superfluids and superconductors and its influence on quantum tunneling of vortices are discussed. The vortex mass is essentially enhanced due to the fermion zero modes in the core of the vortex: the bound states of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 G. E. Volovik

The dark and bright solitons in different systems are already known in Klein-Gordon lattice. Instead of an external driving force, if the intrinsic field is only considered, then the modal dynamics for small oscillations could be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-02 Asis. K. Bandyopadhyay , Atrayee Bhattacharya , Kamal Choudhary , Santanu Das

Vortex mass, which is the inertia of a quantum vortex, has never been observed in superfluids and is a long-standing problem in low temperature physics. The impact of the mass is considered negligible in typical experiments with superfluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-13 Akihiro Kanjo , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

We have analyzed a single vortex at T=0 in a 3D superfluid atomic Fermi gas across a Feshbach resonance. On the BCS side, the order parameter varies on two scales: $k_{F}^{-1}$ and the coherence length $\xi$, while only variation on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-28 R. Sensarma , M. Randeria , T. L. Ho

The effective mass of Abrikosov vortices in superconductors remains a challenging problem with limited experimental verification. In this paper, we present a method based on observation of the vortex mass in magnetic circular dichroism at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-25 Roman Tesař , Michal Šindler , Pavel Lipavský , Jan Koláček , Christelle Kadlec

We show that a large contribution to the inertial mass of a moving superconducting vortex comes from transversal displacements of the crystal lattice. The corresponding part of the mass per unit length of the vortex line is $M_{l} = ({\rm…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Chudnovsky , A. B. Kuklov

We examine the effective interaction of nonrelativistic fermions with an external vector field in superfluid systems. In contrast to the complicated vertex equation, usually used in this case, we apply the approach which does not employ an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. B. Leinson

We present a microscopic calculation of the energy dissipation in the core of a vortex moving in a two-dimensional or layered superconductor in the moderately clean regime. In this regime, the quasiclassical Bardeen--Stephen result remains…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 M. A. Skvortsov , D. A. Ivanov , G. Blatter

We consider the inertial mass of a vortex in a superfluid. We obtain a vortex mass that is well defined and is determined microscopically and self-consistently by the elementary excitation energy of the kelvon quasiparticle localised within…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 Tapio Simula
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