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Anomalous flux-flow dynamics in layered type-II superconductors at low temperatures

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

Low-temperature dissipation due to vortex motion in strongly anisotropic type-II superconductors with a moderate disorder (Δ2/EF/τΔ\Delta^2/E_F \ll \hbar/\tau \ll \Delta) is shown to be determined by the Zener-type transitions between the localized electronic states in the vortex core. Statistics of these levels is described by the random matrix ensemble of the class C defined recently by Atland and Zirnbauer [cond-mat/9602137], so the vortex motion leads naturally to the new example of a parametric statistics of energy levels. The flux-flow conductivity σxx\sigma_{xx} is a bit lower than the quasiclassical one and {\it grows} slowly with the increase of the electric field.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9609173,
  title  = {Anomalous flux-flow dynamics in layered type-II superconductors at low temperatures},
  author = {M. V. Feigel'man and M. A. Skvortsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9609173},
  year   = {2009}
}

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