Condens. Matter 2017, 2(3), 27; https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat2030027
Edge Contamination, Bulk Disorder, Flux Front Roughening, and Multiscaling in Type II Superconducting Thin Films
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Laboratoire Imagerie à Résonance Magnétique Médicale Multi-Modalités, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767 Palaiseau, France
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Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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Academic Editor: Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
Received: 1 July 2017 / Revised: 9 August 2017 / Accepted: 11 August 2017 / Published: 21 August 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Layered Superconductors)
Abstract
We have investigated the effect of different types of disorder on the propagation, roughness, and scaling properties of magnetic flux fronts in a type II superconductor. A progression from the usual (Kardar–Parisi–Zhang-type) scaling to multiscaling is observed as the disorder strength is increased. A hierarchy of disorder strengths is established for YBaKeywords:
type II superconductivity; vortex matter; flux pinning; critical current density; flux penetration; critical state; disorder; irradiation; roughening of elastic manifolds; nonlinear diffusion
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Geahel, M.; Jouanny, I.; Gorse-Pomonti, D.; Poirier-Quinot, M.; Briatico, J.; van der Beek, C.J. Edge Contamination, Bulk Disorder, Flux Front Roughening, and Multiscaling in Type II Superconducting Thin Films. Condens. Matter 2017, 2, 27.
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