Vortex dynamics in the Ginzburg-Landau and Maxwell-Klein-Gordon models with pinning

We study the motion of vortices in a superconductor subject to a perturbed background potential. Such a potential models the presence of pinning sites in the superconductor which the vortices are attracted to. The pinning potential is scaled such that the intervortex interactions also play a role in...

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Main Author: Wileman, Paul
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64438/