The Effect of Splayed Pins on Vortex Creep and Critical Currents

Details The Effect of Splayed Pins on Vortex Creep and Critical Currents The Effect of Splayed Pins on Vortex Creep and Critical Currents

1999-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9909454v1

Phys. Rev. B 62, R3612 (2000).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.62.R3612

We study the effects of splayed columnar pins on the vortex motion using realistic London Langevin simulations. At low currents vortex creep is strongly suppressed, whereas the critical current j_c is enhanced only moderately. Splaying the pins generates an increasing energy barrier against vortex hopping, and leads to the forced entanglement of vortices, both of which suppress creep efficiently. On the other hand splaying enhances kink nucleation and introduces intersecting pins, which cut off the energy barriers. Thus the j_c enhancement is strongly parameter sensitive. We also characterize the angle dependence of j_c, and the effect of different splaying geometries.

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