Sliding elastic lattice: an explanation of the motion of superconducting vortices
arXiv:1108.4998 · doi:10.1063/1.4771599
Abstract
We introduce a system where an elastic lattice of particles is moved slowly at a constant velocity under the influence of a local external potential, construct a rigid-body model through simplification processes, and show that the two systems produce similar results. Then, we apply our model to a superconducting vortex system and produce path patterns similar to the ones reported in [Lee et al., Phys. Rev. B 84, 060515 (2011)] suggesting that the reasoning of the simplification processes in this paper can be a possible explanation of the experimentally observed phenomenon.
5 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to Physical Review Letters; Reference [17] Lee et al., Phys. Rev. B Accepted changed to Lee et al., Phys. Rev. B 84, 060515 (2011)
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