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Ill-posedness of the mean-field model of superconducting vortices and a possible regularisation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2000
Abstract
We conjecture that the mean-field model of superconducting vortices given in [10] is ill-posed wherever the electric current j has some component in the same direction as the vorticity vector ω (which gives the average density and direction of the superconducting vortices). The conjecture is illustrated with a linear stability analysis of a certain solution to the model. A regularised model is then proposed, and this is used to demonstrate the instability of force-free steady states in a certain geometry.
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