@article{203131, author = {Thomas Maldonado and Dzung Pham and Alessio Amaolo and Alejandro Rodriguez and Hakan E. T{\"u}reci}, title = {Negative electrohydrostatic pressure between superconducting bodies}, abstract = {
By applying a hydrodynamic representation of nonrelativistic scalar electrodynamics to the superconducting order parameter, we predict a negative (attractive) pressure between planar superconducting bodies. For con- ventional superconductors with London penetration depth λL ≈ 100 nm, the pressure reaches tens of N/mm2 at angstrom separations. The resulting surface energies are in better agreement with experimental values than those predicted by the Hartree-Fock theory, and the emergent electric-field screening length is comparable to that of the Thomas-Fermi theory. The model circumvents the bulk limitations of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer and Ginzburg-Landau theories to the analysis of superconducting quantum devices.
}, year = {2024}, journal = {Physical Review B}, volume = {110}, pages = {8}, month = {07/2024}, url = {https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.014508}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.110.014508}, }