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I-V characteristics of high-temperature superconductors with columnar defects

Mats Wallin, S. M. Girvin

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.47.14642 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The vortex glass transition in the presence of columnar defects is studied by Monte Carlo simulations of a vortex loop model, suggested by the analogy to the T=0 superconductor-insulator transition for dirty bosons in (2+1) dimensions. From finite-size scaling analysis of the I-V characteristic we find two dynamical exponents describing the nonequilibrium behavior. We obtain z⊥=6±0.5 and z∥=4±0.5 when the current is applied perpendicular and parallel to the columnar defects, respectively.

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