Vortex avalanches and magnetic flux fragmentation in superconductors

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2001-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106353v1

published in Phys. Rev. Lett. v 87, 067003 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 4 figures, accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.067003

We report results of numerical simulations of non isothermal dendritic flux penetration in type-II superconductors. We propose a generic mechanism of dynamic branching of a propagating hotspot of a flux flow/normal state triggered by a local heat pulse. The branching occurs when the flux hotspot reflects from inhomogeneities or the boundary on which magnetization currents either vanish, or change direction. Then the hotspot undergoes a cascade of successive splittings, giving rise to a dissipative dendritic-type flux structure. This dynamic state eventually cools down, turning into a frozen multi-filamentary pattern of magnetization currents.

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