Universal lower limit on vortex creep in superconductors

Eley, Serena Merteen; Miura, Masashi; Maiorov, Boris Alfredo; Civale, Leonardo

doi:10.1038/nmat4840

Title: Universal lower limit on vortex creep in superconductors

Journal Article · 13 February 2017 · Nature Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4840 · OSTI ID:1441293

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Seikei Univ., Tokyo (Japan)

Superconductors are excellent testbeds for studying vortices, topological excitations that also appear in superfluids, liquid crystals and Bose–Einstein condensates. Vortex motion can be disruptive; it can cause phase transitions, glitches in pulsars, and losses in superconducting microwave circuits, and it limits the current-carrying capacity of superconductors4. Understanding vortex dynamics is fundamentally and technologically important, and the competition between thermal energy and energy barriers defined by material disorder is not completely understood. Specifically, early measurements of thermally activated vortex motion (creep) in iron-based superconductors unveiled fast rates (S) comparable to measurements of YBa₂Cu₃O_7–δ. This was puzzling because S is thought to somehow correlate with the Ginzburg number (Gi), and Gi is significantly lower in most iron-based superconductors than in YBa₂Cu₃O_7–δ. Here, we report very slow creep in BaFe ₂(As_0.67P_0.33)₂ films, and propose the existence of a universal minimum realizable S ~ Gi^1/2(T/T_c) (T_c is the superconducting transition temperature) that has been achieved in our films and few other materials, and is violated by none. Furthermore, this limitation provides new clues about designing materials with slow creep and the interplay between material parameters and vortex dynamics.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1441293

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--16-26684

Journal Information:: Nature Materials, Journal Name: Nature Materials Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 16; ISSN 1476-1122

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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