Numerically implemented perturbation method for the nonlinear magnetic moment of an anisotropic superconductor (Q1371994)

The authors discuss the methods which have been developed earlier to obtain results for nonlinear magnetic moments. These methods involve the numerical implementation of a perturbation scheme in which the small expansion parameter is the ratio of an effective penetration depth to a characteristic dimension of the superconductor. Section II discusses nonlinear Maxwell-London equations. Section III deals with the geometrical shapes. Section IV discusses the computation of the magnetic moment and displayes the main results. Numerical considerations are given in Section V. A detailed example is provided in Section VI, and in Section VII one gives conclusions and guidelines for possible improvements and generalizations.