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Mode-locking in ac-driven vortex lattices with random pinning

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We find mode-locking steps in simulated current-voltage characteristics of ac-driven vortex lattices with {\it random} pinning. For low frequencies there is mode-locking above a finite ac force amplitude, while for large frequencies there is mode-locking for any small ac force. This is correlated with the nature of temporal order in the different regimes in the absence of ac drive. The mode-locked state is a frozen solid pinned in the moving reference of frame, and the depinning from the step shows plastic flow and hysteresis.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0012368,
  title  = {Mode-locking in ac-driven vortex lattices with random pinning},
  author = {Alejandro B. Kolton and Daniel Dominguez and Niels Gronbech-Jensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0012368},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures