Upper limit of metastability of the vortex-free state of a two-dimensional superconductor in a nonuniform magnetic field
Thomas R. Lemberger, Adam Ahmed
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.214505 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We calculate the magnetic field above which vortices necessarily appear in a two-dimensional superconducting film in a nonuniform magnetic field applied near its center, as in two-coil measurements of superfluid density. Experiments suggest that free vortices appear when the Meissner screening current density is large enough that the free-energy barrier for separating tightly-bound vortex-antivortex (V-aV) pairs into free vortices is comparable to kBT, not at the much lower thermodynamic critical field. Specifically, we calculate the applied magnetic field above which there exists no metastable state without vortices. There is a simple analogy with the appearance of phase-slip centers in a one-dimensional superconducting wire.
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