Traveling waves in a drifting flux lattice

Simha, Aditi R and Ramaswamy, Sriram (1999) Traveling waves in a drifting flux lattice. In: Physical Review Letters, 83 (16). 3285-3288 .

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Abstract

Starting from the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau 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 mu m/s, using fast scanning tunneling microscopy.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physical Review Letters
Publisher:	The American Physical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to The American Physical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2011 07:01
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2011 07:01
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/38905

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