Title

Vortex Physics in Confined Geometries

Author(s)/Creator(s)

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

Document Type

Article

Date

2-1-2008

Keywords

condensed matter, superconductivity

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 forcing them to flow in confined geometries. Such experiments can be used to distinguish experimentally between continuous disorder-driven glass transitions of vortex matter, such as the vortex glass or the Bose glass transition, and nonequilibrium polymer-like glass transitions driven by interaction and entanglement. For continuous glass transitions, an analysis of such experiments that combines an inhomogeneous scaling theory with the hydrodynamic description of viscous flow of vortex liquids can be used to infer the critical behavior. After generalizing vortex hydrodynamics to incorporate currents and field gradients both longitudinal and transverse to the applied field, the critical exponents for all six vortex liquid viscosities are obtained. In particular, the shear viscosity is predicted to diverge as |T − TBG|−]z at the Bose glass transition, with ν ≃ 1 and z ≃ 4.6 the dynamical critical exponent. The scaling behavior of the ac resistivity is also derived. As concrete examples of flux flow in confined geometries, flow in a channel and in the Corbino disk geometry are discussed in detail. Finally, the implications of scaling for the hydrodynamic description of transport in the dc flux transformer geometry are discussed.

Additional Information

This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for more information see http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9909382

Recommended Citation

arXiv:cond-mat/9909382v1

Source

harvested from arXiv.org