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Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Mar 05;92(9):097002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.097002. Epub 2004 Mar 04.

Glassy vortex dynamics induced by a random array of magnetic particles above a superconductor.

Physical review letters

Young Sun, M B Salamon, K Garnier, R S Averback

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.

PMID: 15089501 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.097002

Abstract

The magnetic relaxation of a Nb film covered with a random array of permalloy particles has been studied using various procedures. When the sample undergoes a field-cooled process, the magnetic relaxation becomes logarithmic in time. The relaxation rate is nearly temperature independent at low temperature and characteristic glassy dynamics-aging and memory effects-are observed. These results are interpreted as the consequence of pinning by the statistical variation of the number of nanoparticles within the area of a vortex core.

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