Browsing by Author "Chaturvedi, H."

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    Disordered vortex matter out of equilibrium: a Langevin molecular dynamics study
    Assi, H.; Chaturvedi, H.; Dobramysl, U.; Pleimling, Michel J.; Täuber, Uwe C. (2015-11-04)
    We discuss the use of Langevin molecular dynamics in the investigation of the non-equilibrium properties of disordered vortex matter. Our special focus is set on values of system parameters that are realistic for disordered high-$T_c$ superconductors such as YBCO. Using a discretized elastic line model, we study different aspects of vortices far from thermal equilibrium. On the one hand we investigate steady-state properties of driven magnetic flux lines in a disordered environment, namely the current-voltage characteristics, the gyration radius, and the pinning time statistics. On the other hand we study the complex relaxation processes and glassy-like dynamics that emerge in type-II superconductors due to the intricate competition between the long-range vortex-vortex repulsion and flux pinning due to randomly placed point defects. To this end we consider different types of sudden perturbations: temperature, magnetic field, and external current quenches.
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    Dynamical regimes of vortex flow in type-II superconductors with parallel twin boundaries
    Chaturvedi, H.; Galliher, N.; Dobramysl, U.; Pleimling, Michel J.; Täuber, Uwe C. (2017-10-11)
    We explore the dynamics of driven magnetic flux lines in disordered type-II superconductors in the presence of twin boundaries oriented parallel to the direction of the applied magnetic field, using a three-dimensional elastic line model simulated with Langevin molecular dynamics. The lines are driven perpendicular to the planes to model the effect of an electric current applied parallel to the planes and perpendicular to the magnetic field. A study of the long-time non-equilibrium steady states for several sample thicknesses L and drive strengths F_d reveals a rich collection of dynamical regimes spanning a remarkably broad depinning transition region that separates the pinned and moving-lattice states of vortex matter. We perform novel direct measurements of flux line excitations such as half-loops and double kinks, and quantitatively analyze their excitation occurrence distributions to characterize the topologically rich flux flow profile and generate a boundary curve separating the regions of linear and non-linear transport in the (L, F_d) plane. Rich static and dynamic visualizations of the vortex matter in different drive regimes supplement the quantitative results obtained.
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    Flux line relaxation kinetics following current quenches in disordered type-II superconductors
    Chaturvedi, H.; Assi, H.; Dobramysl, U.; Pleimling, Michel J.; Täuber, Uwe C. (2016-06)
    We investigate the relaxation dynamics of magnetic vortex lines in type-II superconductors following rapid changes of the external driving current by means of an elastic line model simulated with Langevin molecular dynamics. A system of flux vortices in a sample with randomly distributed point-like defects is subjected to an external current of appropriate strength for a sufficient period of time so as to be in a moving non-equilibrium steady state. The current is then instantaneously lowered to a value that pertains to either the moving or pinned regime. The ensuing relaxation of the flux lines is studied via one-time observables such as their mean velocity and radius of gyration. We have in addition measured the two-time flux line height autocorrelation function to investigate dynamical scaling and aging behavior in the system, which in particular emerge after quenches into the glassy pinned state.
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    Relaxation dynamics of vortex lines in disordered type-II superconductors following magnetic field and temperature quenches
    Assi, H.; Chaturvedi, H.; Dobramysl, U.; Pleimling, Michel J.; Täuber, Uwe C. (American Physical Society, 2015-11-17)
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    Structural Relaxation and Aging Scaling in the Coulomb and Bose Glass Models
    Assi, H.; Chaturvedi, H.; Pleimling, Michel J.; Täuber, Uwe C. (2016-08-13)
    We employ Monte Carlo simulations to study the relaxation properties of the two-dimensional Coulomb glass in disordered semiconductors and the three-dimensional Bose glass in type-II superconductors in the presence of extended linear defects. We investigate the effects of adding non-zero random on-site energies from different distributions on the properties of the correlation-induced Coulomb gap in the density of states (DOS) and on the non-equilibrium aging kinetics highlighted by the density autocorrelation functions. We also probe the sensitivity of the system's equilibrium and non-equilibrium relaxation properties to instantaneous changes in the density of charge carriers in the Coulomb glass or flux lines in the Bose glass.