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Title: Metastability and transient effects in vortex matter near a disorder driven transition

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
OSTI ID:833563

We examine metastable and transient effects both above and below the first-order disorder driven decoupling line in a 3D simulation of magnetically interacting pancake vortices. We observe pronounced transient and history effects as well as supercooling and superheating between the ordered and disordered phases. In the disordered supercooled state as a function of DC driving, reordering occurs through the formation of growing moving channels of the ordered phase. We find that hysteresis in V(I) is strongly dependent on the proximity to the decoupling transition line.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Director. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. Mathematical Information and Computational Sciences Division; National Science Foundation Contract DMR-9985978 (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
833563
Report Number(s):
LBNL-46214; PRLTAO; R&D Project: K11503; TRN: US0406727
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 6718, Issue 18; Other Information: Journal Publication Date: 05/01/2003; PBD: 1 Jun 2000; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English