Critical currents for vortex defect motion in superconducting arrays

Jong Soo Lim; M. Y. Choi; Beom Jun Kim; J. Choi

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.71.100505

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Critical currents for vortex defect motion in superconducting arrays

Jong Soo Lim, M. Y. Choi, Beom Jun Kim, J. Choi

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.100505 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We study numerically the motion of vortices in two-dimensional arrays of resistively shunted Josephson junctions. An extra vortex is created in the ground states by introducing novel boundary conditions and made mobile by applying external currents. We then measure critical currents and the corresponding pinning energy barriers to vortex motion, which in the unfrustrated case agree well with previous theoretical and experimental findings. In the fully frustrated case, our results also give good agreement with experimental ones, in sharp contrast with the existing theoretical prediction. A physical explanation is provided in relation with the vortex motion observed in simulations.