1998/09/10 by C. J. Olson, C. Reichhardt, C. J. O. Reichhardt +1 · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum many-body systems #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.81.3757
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3757 (1998). · 4 pages, 3 figures; accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett
arxiv created 1998/09/10 · openalex publication_date 1998/10/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The new dynamic phase diagram for driven vortices with varying lattice softness we present here indicates that, at high driving currents, at least two distinct dynamic phases of flux flow appear depending on the vortex-vortex interaction strength. When the flux lattice is soft, the vortices flow in independently moving channels with smectic structure. For stiff flux lattices, adjacent channels become locked together, producing crystallinelike order in a coupled channel phase. At the crossover lattice softness between these phases, the system produces a maximum amount of voltage noise. Our results relate spatial order with transport and are in agreement with experiments.