Abstract
Thermomagnetic instability is one of the significant challenges for the application of superconducting devices. In this paper, the microscopic mechanism of thermomagnetic instability in superconducting films subjected to a transient AC magnetic field is numerically investigated by coupling the generalized time dependent Ginzburg–Landau equations and the heat diffusion equation. The influences of magnetic field ramp rate, ambient temperature, and nanometer-sized artificial pinning on the vortex matter are considered in our simulations. It has been found that vortex alignment and repulsion play significant roles in the branching of the penetration trajectories of the magnetic flux. Under fast ramping magnetic fields, the increase in the temperature and instability in the vortex matter are more significant. However, the rising temperature and jump size in the magnetization weaken as the ambient temperature increases. Pronounced hysteresis in the vortex dynamics has been found in the film subjected to AC magnetic fields. As the AC cycle proceeds, the vortex penetration process gets more unstable. We have also found that the nanometer sized pinning strongly modulates the penetration of vortices and the vortex matter is highly correlated with the lattice structure of the pinning sites. Our results provide new insights into vortex dynamics and give a mesoscopic understanding on the channeling and branching in the vortex penetration paths in superconductors under AC magnetic fields.
Highlights
Superconductors are widely used in many application areas, such as high field magnets,1 superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs),2 microwave resonators,3 single-photon optical detectors,4,5 and so on
In our recent work,45 the ultrafast vortex dynamics and the branching in the vortex penetration paths of mesoscopic SC thin films exposed to an external magnetic field are numerically simulated by solving the coupled time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau (TDGL) equations and the heat equation
We considered the effect of ambient temperature, magnetic field ramp rate, and nanoscale pinning on the dynamical behaviors of vortices
Summary
Superconductors are widely used in many application areas, such as high field magnets, superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), microwave resonators, single-photon optical detectors, and so on. Vortex avalanches associated with thermomagnetic instability emerges from a competition between the driving Lorentz force, vortex–vortex interaction, vortex pinning from material defects, and motion induced heat dissipation and thermal diffusion. Coupling the TDGL equations with the heat diffusion equation, the dynamic behaviors of vortices in the superconductors under an oscillating magnetic field are simulated.. The ultrafast vortex dynamics and the branching in the vortex penetration paths of mesoscopic SC thin films exposed to an external magnetic field are numerically simulated by solving the coupled TDGL equations and the heat equation. The vortex avalanche patterns and the dissipative vortex motion induced local temperature rise are simulated by solving the generalized TDGL equations coupled with the thermal diffusion equation.
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