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Dynamics of two-dimensional pancake vortices in layered superconductors

A. S. Mel’nikov

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.449 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) pancake vortices in Josephson-coupled superconducting/normal-metal multilayers is considered within the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory. For temperatures close to Tc a viscous drag force acting on a moving 2D vortex is shown to depend strongly on the conductivity of normal-metal layers. For a tilted vortex line consisting of 2D vortices the equation of viscous motion in the presence of a transport current parallel to the layers is obtained. The specific structure of the vortex line core leads to substantial deviations from the Bardeen-Stephen theory. The viscosity coefficient is found to depend essentially on the angle γ between the magnetic field B and the c axis normal to the layers. For field orientations close to the layers the nonlinear effects in the vortex motion appear even for slowly moving vortex lines (when the in-plane transport current is much smaller than the Ginzburg-Landau critical current). In this nonlinear regime the viscosity coefficient depends logarithmically on the vortex velocity V. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
YBa2Cu3O7/PrxY1-x)Ba2Cu3O7

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DyBa2Cu3O7/PrxY1-x)Ba2Cu3O7

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Nb/Cu

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Nb/CuMn

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Nb/CuGe

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Nb/Al-AlOx

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