Travelling waves in a drifting flux lattice

Aditi Simha, R. ; Ramaswamy, Sriram (1999) Travelling waves in a drifting flux lattice Physical Review Letters, 83 (16). pp. 3285-3288. ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.328...

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3285

Abstract

Starting from the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) equations for a type II superconductor, we derive the equations of motion for the displacement field of a moving vortex lattice ignoring pinning and inertia. We show that it is linearly stable and, surprisingly, that it supports wavelike long-wavelength excitations arising not from inertia or elasticity but from the strain-dependent mobility of the moving lattice. It should be possible to image these waves, whose speeds are a few μm/s, using fast scanning tunneling microscopy.

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