Doubly Quantized Vortices in Bulk Ginzburg-Landau Superconductors

TL;DR

This paper extends a computational method to accurately analyze doubly quantized vortex lattices in bulk Ginzburg-Landau superconductors, enabling detailed studies of their properties at various magnetic inductions.

Contribution

The authors develop an extension of Brandt's method to handle doubly quantized vortices in periodic vortex lattices within Ginzburg-Landau theory.

Findings

Enhanced computational accuracy for doubly quantized vortices

Ability to analyze vortex lattices at arbitrary mean induction

Facilitates future studies of complex vortex structures

Abstract

We have extended Brandt's method for accurate, efficient calculations within Ginzburg-Landau theory for periodic vortex lattices at arbitrary mean induction to lattices of "doubly quantized" vortices.