1999/10/21 by C. Reichhardt, Anne van Otterlo, A. van Otterlo +2 · 5 citations
Engineering · Environmental Science · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computer science #Condensed matter physics #Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Mechanics #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Physics #Tourbillon #Vortex #Window (computing) #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.84.1994
4 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 1999/10/21 · openalex publication_date 2000/02/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We overview several recent experimental and numerical observations, which are at odds with the vortex glass theory of the freezing of disordered vortex matter. To reinvestigate the issue, we performed numerical simulations of the overdamped London-Langevin model, and use finite size scaling to analyze the data. Upon approaching the transition the initial vortex-glass-type criticality is arrested at some crossover temperature. Below this temperature the time scales continue growing very quickly, consistent with the Vogel-Fulcher form, while the spatial correlation length xi stops exhibiting any observable divergence. We call this mode of freezing the vortex molasses scenario.