Comparatively High In-Field Critical Current in Type-II Superconductors from Heterogeneous Columnar Pins: A Molecular Dynamics Study

J. P. Rodriguez, E. J. Oswald

Theoretical work predicts that the strong dependence of Tc on pure shear strain within the a-b plane of optimally doped YBa2Cu3O{7-delta} results in heterogenous columnar pins of v…