Tearing transition and plastic flow in superconducting thin films

Details Tearing transition and plastic flow in superconducting thin films Tearing transition and plastic flow in superconducting thin films

2002-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211327v2

Nature Materials 2, 477 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

16 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

A new class of artificial atoms, such as synthetic nanocrystals or vortices in superconductors, naturally self-assemble into ordered arrays. This property makes them applicable to the design of novel solids, and devices whose properties often depend on the response of such assemblies to the action of external forces. Here we study the transport properties of a vortex array in the Corbino disk geometry by numerical simulations. In response to an injected current in the superconductor, the global resistance associated to vortex motion exhibits sharp jumps at two threshold current values. The first corresponds to a tearing transition from rigid rotation to plastic flow, due to the reiterative nucleation around the disk center of neutral dislocation pairs that unbind and glide across the entire disk. After the second jump, we observe a smoother plastic phase proceeding from the coherent glide of a larger number of dislocations arranged into radial grain boundaries.

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