Record dynamics and the observed temperature plateau in the magnetic creep-rate of type-II superconductors

31 March 2005

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Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B

Vol. 71 (10) , 104526
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.71.104526

Abstract

We use Monte Carlo simulations of a coarse-grained three-dimensional model to demonstrate that the experimentally observed approximate temperature independence of the magnetic creep-rate for a broad range of temperatures may be explained in terms of record dynamics, namely, the dynamical properties of the times at which a stochastic fluctuating signal establishes records.

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