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Absence of Translational Ordering in Driven Vortex Lattices

Superconductivity 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

By using finite temperature molecular dynamics simulations, we consider the question of the existence of dynamical ordering as a two dimensional vortex lattice is driven through a random background potential. The shape of the current-voltage(I-V) characteristics are qualitatively the same as those seen in experiments on the conventional superconductors 2H-NbSe_{2} and Mo_{77}Ge_{23}. However, in contrast to previous simulations, we find that the lattice has no topological or translational order for any value of the driving but that it does exhibit a high driving phase where long range orientational order exists.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9610207,
  title  = {Absence of Translational Ordering in Driven Vortex Lattices},
  author = {Steven Spencer and Henrik Jeldoft Jensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9610207},
  year   = {2016}
}

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single postscript file containing 10 pages with figures included