Avalanches and Self-Organized Criticality in Superconductors Export

@misc{citeulike:358739, abstract = {We review the use of superconductors as a playground for the experimental study of front roughening and avalanches. Using the magneto-optical technique, the spatial distribution of the vortex density in the sample is monitored as a function of time. The roughness and growth exponents corresponding to the vortex landscape are determined and compared to the exponents that characterize the avalanches in the framework of Self-Organized Criticality. For those situations where a thermo-magnetic instability arises, an analytical non-linear and non-local model is discussed, which is found to be consistent to great detail with the experimental results. On anisotropic substrates, the anisotropy regularizes the avalanches.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Wijngaarden, Rinke J. and Welling, Marco S. and Aegerter, Christof M. and Menghini, Mariela}, citeulike-article-id = {358739}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510500}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0510500}, day = {19}, eprint = {cond-mat/0510500}, keywords = {self-organization}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2005-10-21 01:44:14}, priority = {2}, title = {Avalanches and Self-Organized Criticality in Superconductors}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510500}, year = {2005} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:358739 L3 - citeulike-article-id:358739 N2 - We review the use of superconductors as a playground for the experimental study of front roughening and avalanches. Using the magneto-optical technique, the spatial distribution of the vortex density in the sample is monitored as a function of time. The roughness and growth exponents corresponding to the vortex landscape are determined and compared to the exponents that characterize the avalanches in the framework of Self-Organized Criticality. For those situations where a thermo-magnetic instability arises, an analytical non-linear and non-local model is discussed, which is found to be consistent to great detail with the experimental results. On anisotropic substrates, the anisotropy regularizes the avalanches. TI - Avalanches and Self-Organized Criticality in Superconductors KW - self-organization AU - Wijngaarden, Rinke AU - Welling, Marco AU - Aegerter, Christof AU - Menghini, Mariela PY - 2005/Oct/19/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510500 ER -