2000/06/30 by Mario Nicodemi, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Creep #Mechanics #Monte Carlo method #Phenomenology (philosophy) #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum #Quantum mechanics #Quantum tunnelling #Superconductivity #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Thermodynamics #Vortex #cond-mat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.86.4378
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4378 (2001) · extended references, published version
openalex publication_date 2001/05/07 · arxiv created 2001/05/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We theoretically study the creep of vortex matter in superconductors. The low temperature experimental phenomenology, previously interpreted in terms of "quantum tunneling" of vortices, is reproduced by Monte Carlo simulations of a purely "classical" vortex model. We demonstrate that a nonzero creep rate in the limit of vanishing temperature is to be expected in systems with slow relaxations as a consequence of their off-equilibrium evolution in a complex free energy landscape.