{
  "id": "1310.3762",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2013-10-14T17:49:37.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-10-14T17:49:37.000Z",
  "title": "Vortex distribution in a confining potential",
  "authors": [
    "Yan Levin",
    "Matheus Girotto",
    "Alexandre Pereira dos Santos"
  ],
  "journal": "Physical Review E, 88, 032118 (2013)",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study a model of interacting vortices in a type II superconductor. In the weak coupling limit, we constructed a mean-field theory which allows us to accurately calculate the vortex density distribution inside a confining potential. In the strong coupling limit, the correlations between the particles become important and the mean-field theory fails. Contrary to recent suggestions, this does not imply failure of the Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics, as we clearly demonstrate by comparing the results of Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2013-10-14T17:49:37.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "05.40.Fb",
      "05.10.Gg",
      "05.20.-y",
      "05.45.-a"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "confining potential",
      "vortex distribution",
      "vortex density distribution inside",
      "mean-field theory fails",
      "monte carlo simulations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review E",
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.88.032118",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 88,
      "number": 3,
      "pages": "032118"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2013PhRvE..88c2118G"
    }
  }
}