Abstract
A system of interacting vortices under overdamped motion, which has been commonly used in the literature to model flux-front penetration in disordered type-II superconductors, was recently related to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, characteristic of nonextensive statistical mechanics, through an analysis of its stationary state. Herein, this connection is extended by means of a thorough analysis of the time evolution of this system. Numerical data from molecular-dynamics simulations are presented for both position and velocity probability distributions P(x,t) and P(v(x),t), respectively; both distributions are well fitted by similar q-Gaussian distributions, with the same index q=0, for all times considered. Particularly, the evolution of the system occurs in such a way that P(x,t) presents a time behavior for its width, normalization, and second moment, in full agreement with the analytic solution of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation. The present results provide further evidence that this system is deeply associated with nonextensive statistical mechanics.
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