Hysteretic depinning and dynamical melting for magnetically interacting vortices in disordered layered superconductors - art. no. 140502

We examine the depinning transitions and the temperature versus driving for ce phase diagram for magnetically interacting pancake vortices in layered s uperconductors. For strong disorder the initial depinning is plastic follow ed by a sharp hysteretic transition to a three-dimensional ordered state fo r increasing driving force. Our results are in good agreement with theoreti cal predictions for driven anisotropic charge-density wave systems. We also show that a temperature induced peak effect in the critical current occurs due to the onset of plasticity between the layers.