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Electrical polarization of superconductors determined by the Bernoulli potential

Yu. M. IvanchenkoPhysicotechnical Institute of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, Donetsk: Physicotechnical Institute of Low Temperatures of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Khar’kovA. N. Omel’yanchukPhysicotechnical Institute of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, Donetsk: Physicotechnical Institute of Low Temperatures of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Khar’kov

Soviet Journal of Low Temperature Physicsjournal1985en

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Abstract

The macroscopic electrodynamics of superconductors taking into account small corrections proportional to ΔϵF (Δ is the energy gap in the superconductor and ϵF is the Fermi energy), which couple the equations of electro- and magnetostatics for superconductors, is studied. It is shown that a superconductor placed in a stationary magnetic field becomes electrically polarized because of the nonuniform distribution of the superfluid velocity in the Meissner layer, leading to the appearance of a dipolar distribution of electric charge on the surface of the superconductor.

Topics

Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism High-pressure geophysics and materials Superconducting Materials and Applications

Identifiers

DOI: 10.1063/10.0031347

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