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Phys. Rev. B 64, 052506 (2001) [4 pages]

Stochastic dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau vortices in superconductors

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Jennifer Deang*
Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060-0123

Qiang Du and Max D. Gunzburger
Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-2064

Received 6 September 2000; revised 19 January 2001; published 13 July 2001

Thermal fluctuations and randomly distributed defects in superconductors are modeled by stochastic variants of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations. Numerical simulations are used to compare the effects of additive and multiplicative noise models.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.052506
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.64.052506
PACS:
74.20.De, 74.40.+k, 74.60.Ge, 74.80.-g

*Current address: Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, 700 North Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg, MD 20879.

 
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