Shear and loading in channels: Oscillatory shearing and edge currents of superconducting vortices

J. F. Wambaugh; F. Marchesoni; Franco Nori

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.67.144515

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Shear and loading in channels: Oscillatory shearing and edge currents of superconducting vortices

J. F. Wambaugh, F. Marchesoni, Franco Nori

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.144515 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Via computer simulations we study the motion of quantized magnetic flux-lines, or vortices, confined to a straight pin-free channel in a strong-pinning superconducting sample. We find that, when a constant current is applied across this system, a very unusual oscillatory shearing appears, in which the vortices moving at the edges of the channel periodically trail behind and then suddenly leapfrog past the vortices moving in the inner rows. For small enough driving forces, this oscillatory shearing dynamic phase is replaced by a continuous shearing phase in which the distance between initially-nearby vortices grows in time, quickly destroying the order of the lattice. An animation of this novel “oscillatory leapfrogging shear” effect of the vortex edge currents appears in http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/∼nori/channel/

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