Dipolar electric field induced by a vortex moving in an anisotropic superconductor

Abstract

The dipolar electric field induced by an isolated vortex aligned along a principal axis and moving at constant velocity in an anisotropic type-II superconductor is investigated. It is shown that the standard dipolar-field case can be extended by the inclusion of a mass-anisotropy parameter \ensuremath{\beta}. It is shown that the streamlines of the electric field can be easily calculated analytically. In addition, an inertial mass tensor per unit length of vortex is found.