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Ginzburg-Landau vortices for Type-II sUPERCONDUCTORS: A numerical study

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OSTI ID:390777
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay (Hong Kong)
  2. Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States)
Two distinct numerical approaches, direct solution to the Ginzburg-Landau equation and simulated annealing for minimizing the associated renormalized energy, reveal that the Ginzburg-Landau vortices form a boundary layer instead of a lattice structure as previously conjectured, and that the width of the vortex boundary layer falls exponentially with the number of vortices. The simulated annealing approach, especially suitable for high-temperature superconductors, can be extended to general Ginzburg-Landau models.
OSTI ID:
390777
Report Number(s):
CONF-960482--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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