← Back to search

Ordering dynamics in type-II superconductors

Nicholas Guttenberg, Nigel Goldenfeld

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.066202 · Physical Review E

T1

Active bibliographic source — not scientific approval

Bibliographic access preserves source history; it does not approve extracted materials or validate reported claims. Review warnings on each occurrence separately.

Abstract

We use analytic and numerical methods to analyze the dynamics of vortices following the quench of a type-II superconductor under the application of an external magnetic field. In three dimensions, in the absence of a field, the spacing between vortices scales with time t with an exponent ϕ=0.414±0.01, in a thin sheet of a superconductor, the scaling exponent is ϕ=0.294±0.01. When an external magnetic field h is applied, the vortices are confined with respect to the length scale of the Abrikosov lattice, leading to a crossover between the power-law scaling length scale and the lattice length scale. From this we suggest a one-parameter scaling of ṙ with h and r that is consistent with numerical data.

Similar papers