Intermittently Flowing Rivers of Quantized Magnetic Flux

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1997-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9703127v1

Science 271 (1996) 1373-1374

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

RevTeX, two small-font pages, 1 PS fig. included (color fig. only in the printed version). Video in http://www-personal.engin.

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.271.5254.1373

Recent experiments and realistic flux-gradient-driven computer simulations provide evidence of plastic flow of flux lines in a superconductor. The striking videos of the onset of vortex motion vividly illustrate the existence of flowing "rivers" of quantized magnetic flux that intermittently form, freeze, and reappear at different locations in the sample. These rivers flow around "islands" (or domains) of flux lines which are temporarily trapped by the pinning sites. The shape and size of these temporarily frozen islands abruptly change over time with every loading-unloading cycle. Videos of the phenomena are available at: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~nori/ (theory).

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