Flux flow pinning and resistive behavior in superconducting networks

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6504361· OSTI ID:6504361

Teitel, S

We have studied the behavior of superconducting networks in terms of XY and Coulomb gas models. The dynamics of frustrated Josephson junction arrays has been simulated, with a view toward understanding the effects of vortex correlations on flux flow resistance. Randomness has been introduced, and its effects on the superconducting transition, and vortex mobility, have been studied. A three dimensional network has been simulated to study the effects of vortex line entanglement in high temperature superconductors. Preliminary calculations are in progress. The two dimensional classical Coulomb gas where charges map onto vortices in the superconducting network, has been simulated. The melting transitions of ordered charge (vortex) lattices have been studied, and we find clear evidence that these transitions do not have the critical behavior expected from standard symmetry analysis.

• Research Organization: Rochester Univ., NY (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-89ER14017
• OSTI ID: 6504361
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/14017-2; ON: DE91002756; TRN: 90-035747
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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