Force Free Configurations of Vortices in High Temperature Superconductors near H_{c2}

Abstract

We study force-free configurations of Abrikosov flux lines in the line-liquid and line-crystal limit, near the melting transition at H_m. We show that the condition for zero force configurations can be solved by appealing to the structure of chiral liquid crystalline phases.

14 pages, 2 included figures, corrects typos

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