Superconducting Surface Sheath of a Semi-Infinite Half-Space and its Instability due to Fluctuations
- 1 February 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 1 (3), 1091-1096
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.1.1091
Abstract
The surface sheath of a semi-infinite half-space for applied magnetic fields and Ginzburg-Landau values ≥0.707 was investigated with regard to its current-carrying capacity and stability. It is found that infinitesimally three-dimensional fluctuations of the order parameter and the vector potential make the surface sheath unstable and the total stable transport current zero.
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