Vortex lattices in different configurations of periodic pinning line-arrays

✍ Scribed by Cléssio Leão S. Lima; Leonardo R.E. Cabral; Clécio C. de Souza Silva; J. Albino Aguiar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 131 KB
• Volume: 437-438
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4534
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physc.2005.12.077

✦ Synopsis

The vortex lattice (VL) ground-state configurations are found using Monte Carlo (MC) simulated annealing with a local molecular dynamics (MD) in the London limit. We study the field dependence of the melting temperature for commensurate and incommensurate vortex lattices interacting with different periodic arrays of pinning. We also investigated the proliferation of topological defects and its dependence on the periodic pinning array symmetry and temperature.