Mesoscopic superconductors in the London limit: Equilibrium properties and metastability
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Mesoscopic superconductors in the London limit: equilibrium properties and metastability
We present a study of the behaviour of metastable vortex states in mesoscopic superconductors. Our analysis relies on the London limit within which it is possible to derive closed analytical expressions for the magnetic field and the Gibbs free energy. We consider in particular the situation where the vortices are symmetrically distributed along a closed ring. There, we obtain expressions for t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0163-1829,1095-3795
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.63.064523