The Structure of the Vortex Liquid at the Surface of a Layered Superconductor

Details The Structure of the Vortex Liquid at the Surface of a Layered Superconductor The Structure of the Vortex Liquid at the Surface of a Layered Superconductor

1997-10-01

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9710017v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages, RevTeX, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.58.8755

A density-functional approach is used to calculate the inhomogeneous vortex density distribution in the flux liquid phase at the planar surface of a layered superconductor, where the external magnetic field is perpendicular to the superconducting layers and parallel to the surface. The interactions with image vortices are treated within a mean field approximation as a functional of the vortex density. Near the freezing transition strong vortex density fluctuations are found to persist far into the bulk liquid. We also calculate the height of the Bean-Livingston surface barrier.

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