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Critical State in Thin Anisotropic Superconductors of Arbitrary Shape
A thin flat superconductor of arbitrary shape and with arbitrary in-plane and
out-of-plane anisotropy of flux-line pinning is considered, in an external
magnetic field normal to its plane.
It is shown that the general three-dimensional critical state problem for
this superconductor reduces to the two-dimensional problem of an infinitely
thin sample of the same shape but with a modified induction dependence of the
critical sheet current. The methods of solving the latter problem are well
known. This finding thus enables one to study the critical states in realistic
samples of high-Tc superconductors with various types of anisotropic flux-line
pinning. As examples, we investigate the critical states of long strips and
rectangular platelets of high-Tc superconductors with pinning either by the
ab-planes or by extended defects aligned with the c-axis.Comment: 13 pages including 13 figure files in the tex
Local sublattice-symmetry breaking in rotationally faulted multilayer graphene
Interlayer coupling in rotationally faulted graphene multilayers breaks the
local sublattice-symmetry of the individual layers. We present a theory of this
mechanism, which reduces to an effective Dirac model with space-dependent mass
in an important limit. It thus makes a wealth of existing knowledge available
for the study of rotationally faulted graphene multilayers. We demonstrate
quantitative agreement between our theory and a recent experiment.Comment: Valley dependence in Eqs. (2) and (7) corrected; coordinates x and y
interchanged in the appendi
Theory of Type-II Superconductors with Finite London Penetration Depth
Previous continuum theory of type-II superconductors of various shapes with
and without vortex pinning in an applied magnetic field and with transport
current, is generalized to account for a finite London penetration depth
lambda. This extension is particularly important at low inductions B, where the
transition to the Meissner state is now described correctly, and for films with
thickness comparable to or smaller than lambda. The finite width of the surface
layer with screening currents and the correct dc and ac responses in various
geometries follow naturally from an equation of motion for the current density
in which the integral kernel now accounts for finite lambda. New geometries
considered here are thick and thin strips with applied current, and `washers',
i.e. thin film squares with a slot and central hole as used for SQUIDs.Comment: 14 pages, including 15 high-resolution figure
Analytic Solution for the Critical State in Superconducting Elliptic Films
A thin superconductor platelet with elliptic shape in a perpendicular
magnetic field is considered. Using a method originally applied to circular
disks, we obtain an approximate analytic solution for the two-dimensional
critical state of this ellipse. In the limits of the circular disk and the long
strip this solution is exact, i.e. the current density is constant in the
region penetrated by flux. For ellipses with arbitrary axis ratio the obtained
current density is constant to typically 0.001, and the magnetic moment
deviates by less than 0.001 from the exact value. This analytic solution is
thus very accurate. In increasing applied magnetic field, the penetrating flux
fronts are approximately concentric ellipses whose axis ratio b/a < 1 decreases
and shrinks to zero when the flux front reaches the center, the long axis
staying finite in the fully penetrated state. Analytic expressions for these
axes, the sheet current, the magnetic moment, and the perpendicular magnetic
field are presented and discussed. This solution applies also to
superconductors with anisotropic critical current if the anisotropy has a
particular, rather realistic form.Comment: Revtex file and 13 postscript figures, gives 10 pages of text with
figures built i
Properties of the Ideal Ginzburg-Landau Vortex Lattice
The magnetization curves M(H) for ideal type-II superconductors and the
maximum, minimum, and saddle point magnetic fields of the vortex lattice are
calculated from Ginzburg-Landau theory for the entire ranges of applied
magnetic fields Hc1 <= H < Hc2 or inductions 0 <= B < Hc2 and Ginzburg-Landau
parameters sqrt(1/2) <= kappa <= 1000. Results for the triangular and square
flux-line lattices are compared with the results of the circular cell
approximation. The exact magnetic field B(x,y) and magnetization M(H, kappa)
are compared with often used approximate expressions, some of which deviate
considerably or have limited validity. Useful limiting expressions and
analytical interpolation formulas are presented.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Anisotropic superconducting strip in an oblique magnetic field
The critical state of a thin superconducting strip in an oblique applied
magnetic field H_a is analyzed without any restrictions on the dependence of
the critical current density j_c on the local magnetic induction {\bf B}. In
such a strip, j_c is not constant across the thickness of the sample and
differs from J_c/d, where J_c is the critical sheet current. It is shown that
in contrast to the case of {\bf B}-independent j_c, the profiles H_z(x) of the
magnetic-field component perpendicular to the strip plane generally depend on
the in-plane component H_{ax} of the applied magnetic field H_a, and on how H_a
is switched on. On the basis of this analysis, we explain how and under what
conditions one can extract j_c({\bf B}) from the magnetic-field profiles H_z(x)
measured by magneto-optical imaging or by Hall-sensor arrays at the upper
surface of the strip.Comment: 7 pages with 4 figure
A Neural Network Gravitational Arc Finder based on the Mediatrix filamentation Method
Automated arc detection methods are needed to scan the ongoing and
next-generation wide-field imaging surveys, which are expected to contain
thousands of strong lensing systems. Arc finders are also required for a
quantitative comparison between predictions and observations of arc abundance.
Several algorithms have been proposed to this end, but machine learning methods
have remained as a relatively unexplored step in the arc finding process. In
this work we introduce a new arc finder based on pattern recognition, which
uses a set of morphological measurements derived from the Mediatrix
Filamentation Method as entries to an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). We show
a full example of the application of the arc finder, first training and
validating the ANN on simulated arcs and then applying the code on four Hubble
Space Telescope (HST) images of strong lensing systems. The simulated arcs use
simple prescriptions for the lens and the source, while mimicking HST
observational conditions. We also consider a sample of objects from HST images
with no arcs in the training of the ANN classification. We use the training and
validation process to determine a suitable set of ANN configurations, including
the combination of inputs from the Mediatrix method, so as to maximize the
completeness while keeping the false positives low. In the simulations the
method was able to achieve a completeness of about 90% with respect to the arcs
that are input to the ANN after a preselection. However, this completeness
drops to 70% on the HST images. The false detections are of the order of
3% of the objects detected in these images. The combination of Mediatrix
measurements with an ANN is a promising tool for the pattern recognition phase
of arc finding. More realistic simulations and a larger set of real systems are
needed for a better training and assessment of the efficiency of the method.Comment: Updated to match published versio
Meissner-London currents in superconductors with rectangular cross section
Exact analytic solutions are presented for the magnetic moment and screening
currents in the Meissner state of superconductor strips with rectangular cross
section in a perpendicular magnetic field and/or with transport current. The
extension to finite London penetration is achieved by an elegant numerical
method which works also for disks. The surface current in the specimen corners
diverges as l^(-1/3) where l is the distance from the corner. This enhancement
reduces the barrier for vortex penetration and should increase the nonlinear
Meissner effect in d-wave superconductors
Ginzburg-Landau Vortex Lattice in Superconductor Films of Finite Thickness
The Ginzburg-Landau equations are solved for ideally periodic vortex lattices
in superconducting films of arbitrary thickness in a perpendicular magnetic
field. The order parameter, current density, magnetic moment, and the
3-dimensional magnetic field inside and outside the film are obtained in the
entire ranges of the applied magnetic field, Ginzburg Landau parameter kappa,
and film thickness. The superconducting order parameter varies very little near
the surface (by about 0.01) and the energy of the film surface is small. The
shear modulus c66 of the triangular vortex lattice in thin films coincides with
the bulk c66 taken at large kappa. In thin type-I superconductor films with
kappa < 0.707, c66 can be positive at low fields and negative at high fields.Comment: 12 pages including 14 Figures, corrected, Fig.14 added, appears in
Phys. Rev. B 71, issue 1 (2005
Variational theory of flux-line liquids
We formulate a variational (Hartree like) description of flux line liquids
which improves on the theory we developed in an earlier paper [A.M. Ettouhami,
Phys. Rev. B 65, 134504 (2002)]. We derive, in particular, how the massive term
confining the fluctuations of flux lines varies with temperature and show that
this term vanishes at high enough temperatures where the vortices behave as
freely fluctuating elastic lines.Comment: 10 pages, 1 postscript figur
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