Critical currents for vortex defect motion in superconducting arrays
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We study numerically the motion of vortices in two-dimensional arrays of resistively shunted Josephson junctions. An extra vortex is created in the ground states by introducing novel boundary conditions and made mobile by applying external currents. We then measure critical currents and the corresponding pinning energy barriers to vortex motion, which in the unfrustrated case agree well with previous theoretical and experimental findings. In the fully frustrated case our results also give good agreement with experimental ones, in sharp contrast with the existing theoretical prediction. A physical explanation is provided in relation with the vortex motion observed in simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0503361,
title = {Critical currents for vortex defect motion in superconducting arrays},
author = {Jong Soo Lim and M. Y. Choi and Beom Jun Kim and J. Choi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0503361},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in Physical Review B