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Instability of a superconducting line vortex

Instability of a superconducting line vortex
Instability of a superconducting line vortex
We show that a rectilinear superconducting line vortex lying in a current with non-zero component along its axis is unstable to small helical perturbations. The study of exact and numerical solutions for the nonlinear evolution of such perturbations leads us to make some conjectures about the growth of the instability.These results are then used to demonstrate that curvature (or line tension) may not be neglected even for a vortex line which is initially nearly straight.
0167-2789
139-153
Richardson, Giles
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Richardson, Giles
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Richardson, Giles (1997) Instability of a superconducting line vortex. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 110, 139-153. (doi:10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00119-X).

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We show that a rectilinear superconducting line vortex lying in a current with non-zero component along its axis is unstable to small helical perturbations. The study of exact and numerical solutions for the nonlinear evolution of such perturbations leads us to make some conjectures about the growth of the instability.These results are then used to demonstrate that curvature (or line tension) may not be neglected even for a vortex line which is initially nearly straight.

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Accepted/In Press date: 9 May 1997
Published date: December 1997
Organisations: Applied Mathematics

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Local EPrints ID: 404033
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/404033
ISSN: 0167-2789
PURE UUID: f1954955-874d-4990-9adf-c859d3604f49
ORCID for Giles Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-8590

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Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:00

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