The surface barrier in mesoscopic type I and type II superconductors

Details The surface barrier in mesoscopic type I and type II superconductors The surface barrier in mesoscopic type I and type II superconductors

2001-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102444v2

Phys. Rev. B 65, 144529 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

12 pages, 11 figures. Revised version. Section III rewritten. Some figures changed

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.65.144529

We study the surface barrier for magnetic field penetration in mesoscopic samples of both type I and type II superconductors. Our results are obtained from numerical simulations of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations. We calculate the dependence of the first field for flux penetration ($H_p$) with the Ginzburg-Landau parameter ($\kappa $) observing an increase of $H_p$ with decreasing $\kappa$ for a superconductor-insulator boundary condition ($(\nabla -iA)\Psi|_n=0$) while for a superconductor-normal boundary condition (approximated by the limiting case of $\Psi|_S=0$) $H_p$ has a smaller value independent of $\kappa$ and proportional to $H_c$. We study the magnetization curves and penetration fields at different sample sizes and for square and thin film geometries. For small mesoscopic samples we study the peaks and discontinuous jumps found in the magnetization as a function of magnetic field. To interpret these jumps we consider that vortices located inside the sample induce a reinforcement of the surface barrier at fields greater than the first penetration field $H_{p1}$. This leads to multiple penetration fields $H_{pi} = H_{p1}, H_{p2}, H_{p3}, ...$ for vortex entrance in mesoscopic samples. We study the dependence with sample size of the penetration fields $H_{pi}$. We explain these multiple penetration fields extending the usual Bean-Livingston analysis by considering the effect of vortices inside the superconductor and the finite size of the sample.

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