Vortices and the lower critical field for a Ginzburg–Landau model of superconductors with ferromagnetic interactions Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • We study a Ginzburg–Landau functional for a vector-valued order parameter that carries a spin and couples directly to the magnetic field. We verify that spin coupling reduces the lower critical field Hc1, the smallest value of the applied field strength at which vortices penetrate the superconductor, and discuss the related phenomena of a ‘spontaneous vortex phase’ for sufficiently strong spin coupling, predicted by physicists. The method uses energy methods and a priori bounds to confine the vortices and spin transitions to very small balls

publication date

  • April 2005