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Dynamical Aspects of Strong Pinning of Magnetic Vortices in Type-II Superconductors

A. U. Thomann, V. B. Geshkenbein, G. Blatter

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.217001 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We determine the current-voltage characteristic of type-II superconductors in the presence of strong pinning centers. Focusing on a small density of defects, we derive a generic form for the characteristic with a linear flux-flow branch shifted by the critical current (excess-current characteristic). The details near onset, a hysteretic jump (for κ≫1) or a smooth velocity turn-on (κ→1), depend on the Labusch parameter κ characterizing the pinning centers. Pushing the single-pin analysis into the weak pinning domain, we reproduce the collective pinning results for the critical current.

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