Observation of the Signatures of Glassy Vortex Dynamics in 2$H$-NbSe$_{2 }$

ORAL

Abstract

Using time resolved transport measurements, we observed clear evidence of glassy dynamics in the current driven vortex system in clean, weak pinning 2$H$-NbSe$_{2 }$single crystals prepared by field cooling through the superconducting transition. Simple aging was observed by means of scaling over the waiting times between two consecutive current pulses. A memory function was defined to describe how the previous pulse is ``memorized'' when the system is probed by a second pulse. The complex behavior of the driven vortex system in the glassy state is well characterized by a simple picture of the time evolution of the glassy states in configuration space. Preliminary results on direct imaging of the current driven vortices using Hall probe microscopy will be discussed.

Authors

  • Xu Du

    Rutgers University

  • Guohong Li

  • Eva Y. Andrei

    Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854

  • Mark J. Higgins

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

  • Pavel Shuk

  • Martha Greenblatt

    Rutgers University, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University