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Critical scaling and aging near the flux-line-depinning transition

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Chaturvedi, H 
Pleimling, M 
Täuber, UC 

Abstract

We utilize Langevin molecular dynamics simulations to study dynamical critical behavior of magnetic flux lines near the depinning transition in type-II superconductors subject to randomly distributed attractive point defects. We employ a coarse-grained elastic line Hamiltonian for the mutually repulsive vortices and purely relaxational kinetics. In order to infer the stationary-state critical exponents for the continuous non-equilibrium depinning transition at zero temperature T = 0 and at the critical driving current density j_c, we explore two-parameter scaling laws for the flux lines' gyration radius and mean velocity as functions of the two relevant scaling fields T and j - j_c. We also investigate critical aging scaling for the two-time height auto-correlation function in the early-time non-equilibrium relaxation regime to independently measure critical exponents. We provide numerical exponent values for the distinct universality classes of non-interacting and repulsive vortices.

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Keywords

cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.supr-con

Journal Title

Physical Review B

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Journal ISSN

2469-9950
2469-9969

Volume Title

101

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)

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