Vortex avalanches and self organized criticality in superconducting niobium

Details Vortex avalanches and self organized criticality in superconducting niobium Vortex avalanches and self organized criticality in superconducting niobium

2002-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208266v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

3 pages + 4 figures, a reference added, citation typos fixed

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In 1993 Tang proposed [1] that vortex avalanches should produce a self organized critical state in superconductors, but conclusive evidence for this has heretofore been lacking. In the present paper, we report extensive micro-Hall probe data from the vortex dynamics in superconducting niobium, where a broad distribution of avalanche sizes scaling as a power-law for more than two decades is found. The measurements are combined with magneto-optical imaging, and show that over a widely varying magnetic landscape the scaling behaviour does not change, hence establishing that the dynamics of superconducting vortices is a SOC phenomenon.

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