Title

Patterned Geometries and Hydrodynamics at the Vortex Bose Glass Transition

Author(s)/Creator(s)

M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse UniversityFollow
David R. Nelson, Harvard University

Document Type

Article

Date

2-1-2008

Keywords

superconductivity, soft condensed matter

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Patterned irradiation of cuprate superconductors with columnar defects allows a new generation of experiments which can probe the properties of vortex liquids by confining them to controlled geometries. Here we show that an analysis of such experiments that combines an inhomogeneous Bose glass scaling theory with the hydrodynamic description of viscous flow of vortex liquids can be used to infer the critical behavior near the Bose glass transition. The shear viscosity is predicted to diverge as

|T − TBG|−z at the Bose glass transition, with z ≃

6 the dynamical critical exponent.

Additional Information

This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for more information see http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9901291

Recommended Citation

arXiv:cond-mat/9901291v1

Source

harvested from arXiv.org