Effective Mass of a Vortex in a Clean Superconductor

Details Effective Mass of a Vortex in a Clean Superconductor Effective Mass of a Vortex in a Clean Superconductor

1999-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9903125v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

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We calculate the effective mass of a single quantized vortex in the BCS superconductor at finite temperature. Using the effective action for a vortex, we arrive at the mass formula as the integral of the spectral function $J(\omega)/\omega^3$ over frequency. The spectral function is given in terms of the transition elements of the gradient of the Hamiltonian between Bogoliubov-deGennes eigenstates. We show that core-core, and core-extended transitions yield the vortex mass, near T=0, of order of electron mass displaced by the normal core. The extended-extended states contributions are linearly divergent with the low frequency cutoff $\omega_c$, in accordance with the Ohmic character of the spectral function at low energies. We argue that the mass and friction are closely related in this system and arise from the same mechanism - interaction with the surrounding fermionic degrees of freedom.

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