Cracks and critical current
Cracks and critical current
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DOI:
10.1063/1.349298
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发表时间:
1991-09
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Seong-Gon Kim;P. Duxbury
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作者:
Seong-Gon Kim;P. Duxbury
In superconductors, cracks (of width w ≳ ξs) are effective in enhancing local supercurrent, and we calculate the size of these supercurrent hot spots as a function of the crack length a and the London penetration depth λ using the two‐dimensional (2D) London theory. In the λ→∞ limit and constant injected current density, we show that this 2D solution is also exact for the current flow in a thin film containing a through crack. We argue that large local supercurrents near a surface crack nucleate vortex creation. If flux pinning is weak enough these vortices flow under the influence of the large local Lorentz force. The dissipation so produced can lead to a reduction in observed critical current. If flux pinning is moderate, the first additional vortices nucleated near the crack tip are pinned, in a region we label ρ, the flux pinning zone. In the case of a through crack in a thin film, we then argue that jc(a) reduces as jc(a)/jc(0) ∼ (ρ/a)x (for a/L≪1), where L is the film width and x =1/2 for the simple...