Hierarchical structure formation in layered superconducting systems with multi-scale inter-vortex interactions
Superconductivity
2013-09-25 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We demonstrate formation of hierarchical structures in two-dimensional systems with multiple length scales in the inter-particle interaction. These include states such as clusters of clusters, concentric rings, clusters inside a ring, and stripes in a cluster. We propose to realize such systems in vortex matter (where a vortex is mapped onto a particle with multi-scale interactions) in layered superconducting systems with varying inter-layer thicknesses and different layer materials.
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@article{arxiv.1212.1130,
title = {Hierarchical structure formation in layered superconducting systems with multi-scale inter-vortex interactions},
author = {Christopher N. Varney and Karl A. H. Sellin and Qingze Wang and Hans Fangohr and Egor Babaev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1130},
year = {2013}
}