Van der Waals Attraction of Vortices in Anisotropic and Layered Superconductors
Gianni Blatter, Vadim Geshkenbein
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4958 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
We show that in anisotropic and layered superconductors the fluctuations of vortex lines produce an attractive long-range vortex-vortex interaction of the van der Waals type. This attraction follows from the anisotropic screening properties of the material and has profound consequences for the low-field phase diagram of these materials.
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