Hall noise and transverse freezing in driven vortex lattices

Citation
Ab. Kolton et al., Hall noise and transverse freezing in driven vortex lattices, PHYS REV L, 83(15), 1999, pp. 3061-3064
Citations number
37
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
83
Issue
15
Year of publication
1999
Pages
3061 - 3064
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(19991011)83:15<3061:HNATFI>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
We study driven vortex lattices in superconducting thin films. Above the cr itical force F-c we find two dynamical phase transitions at F-p and F-t, wh ich could be observed in simultaneous noise measurements of the longitudina l and Hall voltage. At F-p there is a transition from plastic flow to smect ic flow, where the voltage noise is isotropic (Hall noise = longitudinal no ise) and there is a peak in the differential resistance. At F-t there is a sharp transition to a frozen transverse solid, where the Hall noise falls a bruptly and vortex motion is localized in the transverse direction.