Vortex lattice ordering in the flux flow state of Nb thin films

✍ Scribed by Gaia Grimaldi; Antonio Leo; Angela Nigro; Sandro Pace

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 528 KB
• Volume: 470
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4534
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physc.2010.02.040

✦ Synopsis

We measure current-voltage characteristics at high driving currents for different magnetic fields and temperatures in Nb thin films of rather strong pinning. In a definite range of the B-T phase diagram we find that a current induced transition occurs in the flux flow motion of the vortex lattice, namely a dynamic ordering (DO). Contrary to the case of weaker pinning materials, DO is observed only at low fields, due to the stronger intrinsic disorder that can deform plastically the moving vortex lattice even for small applied fields.