SUPPRESSION OF MAGNETIC-FLUX NOISE IN YBA2CU3O7-X BY A SUPERCURRENT

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FERRARI, MJ [1 ]
WELLSTOOD, FC [1 ]
KINGSTON, JJ [1 ]
CLARKE, J [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB, DIV MAT SCI, CTR ADV MAT, BERKELEY, CA 94720 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1346
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The magnetic-flux noise generated by a patterned film of YBa2Cu3O7-x is reversibly suppressed by the application of a supercurrent. The total noise power decreases by an order of magnitude, in quantitative agreement with a model involving thermally activated vortex hopping between pairs of pinning sites of nearly equal pinning energy. The model yields a force constant of 6 x 10(-5) N/m for a vortex at a typical pinning site, and a hopping distance which increases with temperature from 13 nm at 4.2 K to 64 nm at 60 K. The number density of vortices is at least 0.02-mu-m-2, even in a magnetic field of less than 1-mu-T.
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