Surface Melting of the Vortex Lattice in Layered Superconductors: Density Functional Theory

A. De Col, G. I. Menon, V. B. Geshkenbein +1

We study the effects of an $ab$-surface on the vortex-solid to vortex-liquid transition in layered superconductors in the limit of vanishing inter-layer Josephson coupling. We deri…