The ac magnetic response of mesoscopic type II superconductors

Details The ac magnetic response of mesoscopic type II superconductors The ac magnetic response of mesoscopic type II superconductors

2002-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0205195v1

Phys. Rev. B 66, 144505 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

12 pages, 9 figures, RevTex 4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.66.144505

The response of mesoscopic superconductors to an ac magnetic field is numerically investigated on the basis of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations (TDGL). We study the dependence with frequency $\omega$ and dc magnetic field $H_{dc}$ of the linear ac susceptibility $\chi(H_{dc}, \omega)$ in square samples with dimensions of the order of the London penetration depth. At $H_{dc}=0$ the behavior of $\chi$ as a function of $\omega$ agrees very well with the two fluid model, and the imaginary part of the ac susceptibility, $\chi"(\omega)$, shows a dissipative a maximum at the frequency $\nu_o=c^2/(4\pi \sigma\lambda^2)$. In the presence of a magnetic field a second dissipation maximum appears at a frequency $\omega_p\ll\nu_0$. The most interesting behavior of mesoscopic superconductors can be observed in the $\chi(H_{dc})$ curves obtained at a fixed frequency. At a fixed number of vortices, $\chi"(H_{dc})$ continuously increases with increasing $H_{dc}$. We observe that the dissipation reaches a maximum for magnetic fields right below the vortex penetration fields. Then, after each vortex penetration event, there is a sudden suppression of the ac losses, showing discontinuities in $\chi"(H_{dc})$ at several values of $H_{dc}$. We show that these discontinuities are typical of the mesoscopic scale and disappear in macroscopic samples, which have a continuos behavior of $\chi(H_{dc})$. We argue that these discontinuities in $\chi(H_{dc})$ are due to the effect of {\it nascent vortices} which cause a large variation of the amplitude of the order parameter near the surface before the entrance of vortices.

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