Energy cost associated with vortex crossing in superconductors

Details Energy cost associated with vortex crossing in superconductors Energy cost associated with vortex crossing in superconductors

1994-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9404098v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

15 pages, RevTex v3.0, followed by 5 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.50.10294

Starting from the Ginzburg-Landau free energy of a type II superconductor in a magnetic field we estimate the energy associated with two vortices crossing. The calculations are performed by assuming that we are in a part of the phase diagram where the lowest Landau level approximation is valid. We consider only two vortices but with two markedly different sets of boundary conditions: on a sphere and on a plane with quasi-periodic boundary conditions. We find that the answers are very similar suggesting that the energy is localised to the crossing point. The crossing energy is found to be field and temperature dependent -- with a value at the experimentally measured melting line of $U_\times \simeq 7.5 k T_m \simeq 1.16/c_L^2$, where $c_L$ is the Lindemann melting criterion parameter. The crossing energy is then used with an extension of the Marchetti, Nelson and Cates hydrodynamic theory to suggest an explanation of the recent transport experiments of Safar {{\em et al.}\ }.

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