Vortex shear banding transitions in superconductors with inhomogeneous pinning arrays
Abstract
Abstract We numerically examine the flow of superconducting vortices in samples containing square pinning arrays in which a band of pins is removed. When a drive is applied at an angle with respect to the band orientation, we find that the vortex depinning initiates in the pin-free channel. The moving vortices form a series of quasi-one-dimensional shear bands that begin flowing in the bulk of the pin-free channel, and the motion gradually approaches the edge of the pinned region. The consecutive depinning of each shear band appears as a series of jumps in the velocity-force curves and as sharp steps in the spatial velocity profiles. When a constant drive is applied parallel to the pin-free channel along with a gradually increasing perpendicular drive, the net vortex velocity decreases in a series of steps that correspond to the immobilization of bands of vortices, and in some cases the flow can drop to zero, creating a field effect transistor phenomenon. These results should also be relevant to other types of systems that exhibit depinning in the presence of inhomogeneous pinning.
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
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- 1579773
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- OSTI ID: 1784695
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- LA-UR-19-28414
Journal ID: ISSN 2399-6528
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- Journal of Physics Communications
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- Journal Name: Journal of Physics Communications Journal Volume: 3 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2399-6528
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- IOP Publishing
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- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Material Science
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Reichhardt, C., and Reichhardt, C. J. O. Vortex shear banding transitions in superconductors with inhomogeneous pinning arrays. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1088/2399-6528/ab5e66.
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title = {Vortex shear banding transitions in superconductors with inhomogeneous pinning arrays},
author = {Reichhardt, C. and Reichhardt, C. J. O.},
abstractNote = {Abstract We numerically examine the flow of superconducting vortices in samples containing square pinning arrays in which a band of pins is removed. When a drive is applied at an angle with respect to the band orientation, we find that the vortex depinning initiates in the pin-free channel. The moving vortices form a series of quasi-one-dimensional shear bands that begin flowing in the bulk of the pin-free channel, and the motion gradually approaches the edge of the pinned region. The consecutive depinning of each shear band appears as a series of jumps in the velocity-force curves and as sharp steps in the spatial velocity profiles. When a constant drive is applied parallel to the pin-free channel along with a gradually increasing perpendicular drive, the net vortex velocity decreases in a series of steps that correspond to the immobilization of bands of vortices, and in some cases the flow can drop to zero, creating a field effect transistor phenomenon. These results should also be relevant to other types of systems that exhibit depinning in the presence of inhomogeneous pinning.},
doi = {10.1088/2399-6528/ab5e66},
journal = {Journal of Physics Communications},
number = 12,
volume = 3,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {2019},
month = {12}
}
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