2003/03/11 by Eugene M. Chudnovsky, E. M. Chudnovsky, Chudnovsky, E. M. +3
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0303213
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arxiv created 2003/03/11 · openalex publication_date 2003/03/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that a large contribution to the inertial mass of a moving superconducting vortex comes from transversal displacements of the crystal lattice. The corresponding part of the mass per unit length of the vortex line is Ml = (\rm me2c2/64πα2μλL4)ln(λL/ξ) , where \rm me is the the bare electron mass, c is the speed of light, α=e2/ℏc ≈ 1/137 is the fine structure constant, μ is the shear modulus of the solid, λL is the London penetration length and ξ is the coherence length. In conventional superconductors, this mass can be comparable to or even greater than the vortex core mass computed by Suhl.