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Intervortex forces in competing-order superconductors

Speight, Martin, Winyard, Thomas (2021) Intervortex forces in competing-order superconductors. Physical Review B, 103 (1). Article Number 014514. ISSN 2469-9950. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.014514) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:90786)

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Abstract

The standard Ginzburg-Landau model of competing-order superconductors, applicable to various high Tc cuprates, is studied. It is observed that this model possesses two distinct species of vortex, and consequently has two distinct integer valued topological charges. A simple point particle model of long-range forces between (anti)vortices of any species is developed and compared with numerical simulations of the full field theory, excellent agreement being found. Some of the results are quite counterintuitive. For example, a parameter regime exists where vortices of one species repel both vortices and antivortices of the other.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.014514
Uncontrolled keywords: Superconductivity; Vortices in superconductors; Cuprates; High-temperature superconductors; Landau-Ginzburg theory; SO(N) symmetry
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics > QC20 Mathematical Physics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Depositing User: Amy Boaler
Date Deposited: 11 Oct 2021 11:41 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 17:40 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/90786 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Winyard, Thomas.

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