Lack of diamagnetism and the Little-Parks effect

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2267-7zbMATH Open1315.82027OpenAlexW3103702974MaRDI QIDQ2018338FDOQ2018338

Authors: S. Fournais, Mikael Persson 

Publication date: 14 April 2015

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: When a superconducting sample is submitted to a sufficiently strong external magnetic field, the superconductivity of the material is lost. In this paper we prove that this effect does not, in general, take place at a unique value of the external magnetic field strength. Indeed, for a sample in the shape of a narrow annulus the set of magnetic field strengths for which the sample is superconducting is not an interval. This is a rigorous justification of the Little-Parks effect. We also show that the same oscillation effect can happen for disc-shaped samples if the external magnetic field is non-uniform. In this case the oscillations can even occur repeatedly along arbitrarily large values of the Ginzburg--Landau parameter $kappa$. The analysis is based on an understanding of the underlying spectral theory for a magnetic Schr"{o}dinger operator. It is shown that the ground state energy of such an operator is not in general a monotone function of the intensity of the field, even in the limit of strong fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4690

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zbMATH Keywords

Ginzburg-Landau systemLittle-Parks effectmagnetic Schrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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