Experiments in vortex avalanches

Details Experiments in vortex avalanches Experiments in vortex avalanches

2004-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402097v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

To be published in Reviews of Modern Physics April 2004. 17 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/RevModPhys.76.471

Avalanche dynamics is found in many phenomena spanning from earthquakes to the evolution of species. It can be also found in vortex matter when a type II superconductor is externally driven, for example, by increasing the magnetic field. Vortex avalanches associated with thermal instabilities can be an undesirable effect for applications, but "dynamically driven" avalanches emerging from the competition between intervortex interactions and quenched disorder constitute an interesting scenario to test theoretical ideas related with non-equilibrium dynamics. However, differently from the equilibrium phases of vortex matter in type II superconductors, the study of the corresponding dynamical phases - in which avalanches can play a role - is still in its infancy. In this paper we critically review relevant experiments performed in the last decade or so, emphasizing the ability of different experimental techniques to establish the nature and statistical properties of the observed avalanche behavior.

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