Covariant Vortex In Superconducting-Superfluid-Normal Fluid Mixtures with Stiff Equation of State

Abstract

The integrals of motion for a cylindrically symmetric stationary vortex are obtained in a covariant description of a mixture of interacting superconductors, superfluids and normal fluids. The relevant integrated stress-energy coefficients for the vortex with respect to a vortex-free reference state are calculated in the approximation of a ``stiff'', i.e. least compressible, relativistic equation of state for the fluid mixture. As an illustration of the foregoing general results, we discuss their application to some of the well known examples of ``real'' superfluid and superconducting systems that are contained as special cases. These include Landau's two-fluid model, uncharged binary superfluid mixtures, rotating conventional superconductors and the superfluid neutron-proton-electron plasma in the outer core of neutron stars.