Braided Rivers and Superconducting Vortex Avalanches
Kevin E. Bassler, Maya Paczuski, George F. Reiter
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3956 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
Magnetic vortices intermittently flow through preferred channels when they are forced in or out of a superconductor. We study this behavior using a cellular model, and find that the vortex flow can make braided rivers strikingly similar to aerial photographs of braided fluvial rivers, such as the Brahmaputra. By developing an analysis technique suitable for characterizing a self-affine (multi)fractal, the scaling properties of the braided vortex rivers in the model are compared with those of braided fluvial rivers. We suggest that avalanche dynamics leads to braiding in both cases.
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