Surface superconducting states and paramagnetism in mesoscopic superconductors
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Surface superconducting states and paramagnetism in mesoscopic superconductors
In the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau equation, the temperature dependence of the upper critical field of small ring-like superconductors is studied. At equilibrium small parts of the phase diagram show paramagnetism for width / radius ratios below 0.85. Their number and extension increase with the size of the hole. In these regions, only the inner part of the ring shows a positive magnetic m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0163-1829,1095-3795
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.68.104522