Van der Waals Attraction of Vortices in Anisotropic and Layered Superconductors
- 9 December 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 77 (24) , 4958-4961
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.4958
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.Keywords
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