Quantum depinning of a pancake-vortex from a columnar defect

Details Quantum depinning of a pancake-vortex from a columnar defect Quantum depinning of a pancake-vortex from a columnar defect

1998-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9802016v1

Phys. Rev. B 57 (1998) 3586

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

11 pages, RevTeX, 4 figures inserted

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.57.3586

We consider the problem of the depinning of a weakly driven ($F\ll F_{c}$) pancake vortex from a columnar defect in a Josephson-coupled superconductor, where $F$ denotes the force acting on the vortex ($F_{c}$ is the critical force). The dynamics of the vortex is supposed to be of the Hall type. The Euclidean action $S_{Eucl}(T)$ is calculated in the entire temperature range; the result is universal and does not depend on the detailed form of the pinning potential. We show that the transition from quantum to classical behavior is second-order like with the temperature $T_{c}$ of the transition scaling like $F^{{4}/{3}}.$ Special attention is paid to the regime of applicability of our results, in particular, the influence of the large vortex mass appearing in the superclean limit is discussed.

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