Sg. Doettinger et al., KRAMER-PESCH EFFECT AND DAMPING OF THE VORTEX MOTION IN THE CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 55(9), 1997, pp. 6044-6050
Kramer and Pesch discussed the fact that in the clean limit the radius
of a vortex core in a type-II superconductor decreases proportionally
to T with decreasing temperature. This ''Kramer-Pesch effect'' result
s from the thermal population of the quasiparticle bound states in the
vortex core. In addition to the case of a static vortex, this effect
also has important consequences for the vortex dynamics. Because of th
is, for the cuprate superconductors features of the damping of the vor
tex motion are expected at low temperatures. We discuss recent measure
ments of the electric resistance at high vortex velocities and of the
microwave power absorption for different cuprate superconductors in co
njunction with the Kramer-Pesch effect.