Sign change of the surface energy of a two-component superconductor

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.10.014MaRDI QIDQ455047zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jun-Ping Wang

Publication date 4 October 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0746

zbMATH Keywords

Ginzburg-Landau theorysurface energytwo-component superconductor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: Existence of thermodynamically stable composite vortices in a two-component superconductor may form distinctive vortex patterns, and may lead to type-1.5 superconductivity. Here we study the surface energy of the two-component superconductor and show that the sign of surface energy is determined not only by the Ginzburg-Landau parameters $kapp{a}_i(i=1,2)$ of two superconducting components, but also by a temperature independent parameter $kapp{a}_{x}i$, which is defined as the ratio of the coherence lengths of two components. Since the negative surface energy conduces to the invasion of thermodynamically stable composite vortices into a superconductor, the criterions for stability of composite vortex are these three independent dimensionless parameters. We find that there can exist thermodynamically stable composite vortex in a type-1+type-2 or type-2+type-2 material. We also predict that unusual vortex patterns like those observed in $Mg{B}_2$ (V. Moshchalkov et al, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 117001 (2009)) can occur in some type-2+type-2 superconductors.

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