Driven vortices in three-dimensional layered superconductors: Dynamical ordering along the c axis

Citation
Ab. Kolton et al., Driven vortices in three-dimensional layered superconductors: Dynamical ordering along the c axis, PHYS REV B, 62(22), 2000, pp. R14657-R14660
Citations number
37
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
ISSN journal
01631829 → ACNP
Volume
62
Issue
22
Year of publication
2000
Pages
R14657 - R14660
Database
ISI
SICI code
0163-1829(200012)62:22<R14657:DVITLS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
We study a three-dimensional model of driven vortices in weakly coupled lay ered superconductors with strong pinning. Above the critical force F-c, we find a plastic Row regime in which pancakes in different layers are uncoupl ed, corresponding to a pancake sas. At a higher F, there is a "smectic flow " regime with short-range interlayer order, corresponding to an entangled l ine liquid. Later, the transverse displacements freeze and vortices become correlated along the c axis, resulting in a tranverse solid. Finally, at a force F-s the longitudinal displacements freeze and we End a coherent solid of rigid lines.