Targeted evolution of pinning landscapes for large superconducting critical currents

Sadovskyy, Ivan A.; Koshelev, Alexei E.; Kwok, Wai-Kwong; Welp, Ulrich; Glatz, Andreas

doi:10.1073/pnas.1817417116

Title: Targeted evolution of pinning landscapes for large superconducting critical currents

Journal Article · Mon Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817417116· OSTI ID:1505851

Sadovskyy, Ivan A.; Koshelev, Alexei E.; Kwok, Wai-Kwong; Welp, Ulrich;

The ability of type II superconductors to carry large amounts of current at high magnetic fields is a key requirement for future design innovations in high-field magnets for accelerators and compact fusion reactors, and largely depends on the vortex pinning landscape comprised of material defects. The complex interaction of vortices with defects that can be grown chemically, e.g., self-assembled nanoparticles and nanorods, or introduced by postsynthesis particle irradiation precludes a priori prediction of the critical current and can result in highly nontrivial effects on the critical current. Here, we borrow concepts from biological evolution to create a vortex pinning genome based on a genetic algorithm, naturally evolving the pinning landscape to accommodate vortex pinning and determine the best possible configuration of inclusions for two different scenarios: a natural evolution process initiating from a pristine system and one starting with preexisting defects to demonstrate the potential for a postprocessing approach to enhance critical currents. Furthermore, the presented approach is even more general and can be adapted to address various other targeted material optimization problems.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1505851

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1524418

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 116 Journal Issue: 21; ISSN 0027-8424

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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