Disorder-induced power-law response of a superconducting vortex on a plane

作者:Shapira N*; Lamhot Y; Shpielberg O; Kafri Y; Ramshaw B J; Bonn D A; Liang Ruixing; Hardy W N; Auslaender O M
来源:Physical Review B, 2015, 92(10): 100501.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.100501

摘要

We report drive-response experiments on individual superconducting vortices on a plane, a realization for a (1+1)-dimensional directed polymer in random media. For this we use magnetic force microscopy to image and manipulate individual vortices trapped on a twin boundary in YBa2Cu3O7-delta near optimal doping. We find that when we drag a vortex with the magnetic tip, it moves in a series of jumps. As theory suggests, the jump-size distribution does not depend on the applied force and is consistent with power-law behavior. The measured power is much larger than widely accepted theoretical calculations.

  • 出版日期2015-9-3