English

Toward superconducting critical current by design

Superconductivity 2016-11-04 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science

Abstract

We present the new paradigm of critical current by design. Analogous to materials by design, it aims at predicting the optimal defect landscape in a superconductor for targeted applications by elucidating the vortex dynamics responsible for the bulk critical current. To highlight this approach, we demonstrate the synergistic combination of critical current measurements on commercial high-temperature superconductors containing self-assembled and irradiation tailored correlated defects by using large-scale time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations for vortex dynamics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.06446,
  title  = {Toward superconducting critical current by design},
  author = {I. A. Sadovskyy and Y. Jia and M. Leroux and J. Kwon and H. Hu and L. Fang and C. Chaparro and S. Zhu and U. Welp and J. -M. Zuo and Y. Zhang and R. Nakasaki and V. Selvamanickam and G. W. Crabtree and A. E. Koshelev and A. Glatz and W. -K. Kwok},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06446},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures; extended version

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