Vortex-vortex interaction in bulk superconductors: Ginzburg-Landau theory

Andrey Chaves; F. M. Peeters; G. A. Farias; M. V. Milošević

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.83.054516

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Vortex-vortex interaction in bulk superconductors: Ginzburg-Landau theory

Andrey Chaves, F. M. Peeters, G. A. Farias, M. V. Milošević

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.054516 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The vortex-vortex interaction potential in bulk superconductors is calculated within the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory and is obtained from a numerical solution of a set of two coupled nonlinear GL differential equations for the vector potential and the superconducting order parameter, where the merger of vortices into a giant vortex is allowed. Further, the interaction potentials between a vortex and a giant vortex and between a vortex and an antivortex are obtained for both type-I and type-II superconductors. Our numerical results agree asymptotically with the analytical expressions for large intervortex separations that are available in the literature. We propose empirical expressions valid over the full interaction range, which are fitted to our numerical data for different values of the GL parameter.