Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2001-06-28
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
9 pages, 17 figures (submitted to Phys. Rev. B)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.65.104515
The influence of the geometry of a thin superconducting sample on the penetration of the magnetic field lines and the arrangement of vortices are investigated theoretically. We compare superconducting disks, squares and triangles with the same surface area having nonzero thickness. The coupled nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau equations are solved self-consistently and the important demagnetization effects are taken into account. We calculate and compare quantities like the free energy, the magnetization, the Cooper-pair density, the magnetic field distribution and the superconducting current density for the three geometries. For given vorticity the vortex lattice is different for the three geometries, i.e. it tries to adapt to the geometry of the sample. This also influences the stability range of the different vortex states. For certain magnetic field ranges we found a coexistence of a giant vortex placed in the center and single vortices toward the corners of the sample. Also the H-T phase diagram is obtained.
Baelus B. J.
Peeters François M.
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