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Buckling instability in type-II superconductors with strong pinning
We predict a novel buckling instability in the critical state of thin type-II
superconductors with strong pinning. This elastic instability appears in high
perpendicular magnetic fields and may cause an almost periodic series of flux
jumps visible in the magnetization curve. As an illustration we apply the
obtained criteria to a long rectangular strip.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Thin Ohmic or superconducting strip with an applied ac electric current
The complex impedance, currents, and electric and magnetic fields are
calculated as functions of resistivity and frequency or London depth for a long
thin strip with applied ac current. Both Ohmic and superconducting strips are
considered. While the inductance per unit length of the strip depends on the
strip length logarithmically, the sheet current, magnetic field, resistance,
and magnetic susceptibility are independent of this length. It is found that
the enhancement of resistance by the skin effect in thin Ohmic strips is much
weaker (logarithmic) than in thick wires.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, for Phys. Rev.
Properties of the Ideal Ginzburg-Landau Vortex Lattice
The magnetization curves M(H) for ideal type-II superconductors and the
maximum, minimum, and saddle point magnetic fields of the vortex lattice are
calculated from Ginzburg-Landau theory for the entire ranges of applied
magnetic fields Hc1 <= H < Hc2 or inductions 0 <= B < Hc2 and Ginzburg-Landau
parameters sqrt(1/2) <= kappa <= 1000. Results for the triangular and square
flux-line lattices are compared with the results of the circular cell
approximation. The exact magnetic field B(x,y) and magnetization M(H, kappa)
are compared with often used approximate expressions, some of which deviate
considerably or have limited validity. Useful limiting expressions and
analytical interpolation formulas are presented.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Turbulent channel flow of dense suspensions of neutrally-buoyant spheres
Dense particle suspensions are widely encountered in many applications and in
environmental flows. While many previous studies investigate their rheological
properties in laminar flows, little is known on the behaviour of these
suspensions in the turbulent/inertial regime. The present study aims to fill
this gap by investigating the turbulent flow of a Newtonian fluid laden with
solid neutrally-buoyant spheres at relatively high volume fractions in a plane
channel. Direct Numerical Simulation are performed in the range of volume
fractions Phi=0-0.2 with an Immersed Boundary Method used to account for the
dispersed phase. The results show that the mean velocity profiles are
significantly altered by the presence of a solid phase with a decrease of the
von Karman constant in the log-law. The overall drag is found to increase with
the volume fraction, more than one would expect just considering the increase
of the system viscosity due to the presence of the particles. At the highest
volume fraction here investigated, Phi=0.2, the velocity fluctuation
intensities and the Reynolds shear stress are found to decrease. The analysis
of the mean momentum balance shows that the particle-induced stresses govern
the dynamics at high Phi and are the main responsible of the overall drag
increase. In the dense limit, we therefore find a decrease of the turbulence
activity and a growth of the particle induced stress, where the latter
dominates for the Reynolds numbers considered here.Comment: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 201
Composition-tuned magneto-optical Kerr effect in L10-MnxGa films with giant perpendicular anisotropy
We report the large polar magnetooptical Kerr effect in L10-MnxGa epitaxial
films with giant perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in a wide composition range.
The Kerr rotation was enhanced by a factor of up to 10 by decreasing Mn atomic
concentration, which most likely arises from the variation of the effective
spin-orbit coupling strength, compensation effect of magnetic moments at
different Mn atom sites, and overall strain. The Kerr ellipticity and the
magnitude of the complex Kerr angle is found to have more complex
composition-dependence that varies with the photon energy. These L10-MnxGa
films show large Kerr rotation of up to 0.10o, high reflectivity of 35%-55% in
a wide wavelength range of 400~850 nm, and giant magnetic anisotropic field of
up to 210 kOe, making them an interesting material system for emerging
spintronics and terahertz modulator applications
Critical State in Thin Anisotropic Superconductors of Arbitrary Shape
A thin flat superconductor of arbitrary shape and with arbitrary in-plane and
out-of-plane anisotropy of flux-line pinning is considered, in an external
magnetic field normal to its plane.
It is shown that the general three-dimensional critical state problem for
this superconductor reduces to the two-dimensional problem of an infinitely
thin sample of the same shape but with a modified induction dependence of the
critical sheet current. The methods of solving the latter problem are well
known. This finding thus enables one to study the critical states in realistic
samples of high-Tc superconductors with various types of anisotropic flux-line
pinning. As examples, we investigate the critical states of long strips and
rectangular platelets of high-Tc superconductors with pinning either by the
ab-planes or by extended defects aligned with the c-axis.Comment: 13 pages including 13 figure files in the tex
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