Role of surface defects and material inhomogeneities for vortex nucleation in superconductors within time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory in 2 and 3 dimensions

Alden R. Pack, Jared Carlson, Spencer Wadsworth +1

We use Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory to study the nucleation of vortices in type II superconductors in the presence of both geometric and material inhomogeneities. The supe…