{
  "id": "cond-mat/0510500",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-10-19T10:24:53.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-10-19T10:24:53.000Z",
  "title": "Avalanches and Self-Organized Criticality in Superconductors",
  "authors": [
    "Rinke J. Wijngaarden",
    "Marco S. Welling",
    "Christof M. Aegerter",
    "Mariela Menghini"
  ],
  "doi": "10.1140/epjb/e2006-00063-7",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.supr-con"
  ],
  "abstract": "We review the use of superconductors as a playground for the experimental study of front roughening and avalanches. Using the magneto-optical technique, the spatial distribution of the vortex density in the sample is monitored as a function of time. The roughness and growth exponents corresponding to the vortex landscape are determined and compared to the exponents that characterize the avalanches in the framework of Self-Organized Criticality. For those situations where a thermo-magnetic instability arises, an analytical non-linear and non-local model is discussed, which is found to be consistent to great detail with the experimental results. On anisotropic substrates, the anisotropy regularizes the avalanches.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-10-19T10:24:53.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "self-organized criticality",
      "avalanches",
      "superconductors",
      "thermo-magnetic instability arises",
      "anisotropic substrates"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}