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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Enhanced Pinning with Controlled Splay Configurations of Columnar Defects; Rapid Vortex Motion at Large Angles
Abstract
Orders-of-magnitude enhancements of persistent currents J are reported in YBa2Cu3O7−Δ with columnar defects arranged in a variety of splayed configurations. The largest J is obtained for a planar distribution Ppl\(Θ), with a splay angle Θopt =+/−5°. A comparison of Ppl\(Θ\) and a Gaussian distribution PG\(Θ\) suggests that pinning by the latter is controlled by large-angle tails of the Gaussian which appear to enhance thermal creep rate. Numerical simulations confirm the existence of the regimes where vortex motion is promoted rather than suppressed by splay. © 1996 The American Physical Society.