Summary: 1
Aging memory and glassiness of a driven vortex
system.
Xu Du1
, Guohong Li1
, Eva Y. Andrei1
, M. Greenblatt2
, P. Shuk2
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
08855 USA
2
Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA
Many systems in nature cannot equilibrate with the environment giving rise to
novel and surprising behaviour including memory, aging and nonlinear-dynamics.
Glasses[1-11], interfaces[12] and fractures are some examples[13]. Unlike their
equilibrated counterparts, the dynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems is generally
too complex to be captured by simple macroscopic laws[1]. Here we investigate a
system that straddles the boundary between glass and crystal, a Bragg glass[14,15],
formed by vortices in a superconductor. We find that the response to an applied

Source: Andrei, Eva Y. - Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

Collections: Materials Science; Physics