Melting of Moving Vortex Lattices With Periodic Pinning

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4 November 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9911044

Abstract

We study numerically the effects of temperature on moving vortex lattices interacting with periodic pinning arrays. For low temperatures the vortex lattice flows in channels, forming a hexatic structure with long range transverse and longitudinal ordering. At higher temperatures, a transition to a smectic state occurs where vortices wander between channels and longitudinal order is lost while transverse order remains. At the highest temperatures the vortex lattice melts into an isotropic liquid.

Keywords

MOVING VORTEX LATTICES
LONGITUDINAL ORDERING
PERIODIC PINNING
TEMPERATURES
MELTING

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Version 1, 1999-11-04, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review B, 61 (21), 14354.

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