Stable vortex crossing in layered superconductors

We consider the stability of a stack of pancake vortices crossing a Josephson vortex in a layered superconductor. A metastable minimum only occurs for sufficiently extreme anisotropy and a wide enough layer spacing. This is quantified in terms of a critical ratio of the in-plane penetration depth an...

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Published in:Physica. C, Superconductivity Superconductivity, 2002-03, Vol.369 (1), p.182-186
Main Author: Dodgson, Matthew J.W.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Layered superconductors
Vortex crossing
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Summary:We consider the stability of a stack of pancake vortices crossing a Josephson vortex in a layered superconductor. A metastable minimum only occurs for sufficiently extreme anisotropy and a wide enough layer spacing. This is quantified in terms of a critical ratio of the in-plane penetration depth and the Josephson length.
ISSN:0921-4534
1873-2143
DOI:10.1016/S0921-4534(01)01238-2