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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2004

Impeded Growth of Magnetic Flux Bubbles in the Intermediate State Pattern of Type I Superconductors

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Normal state bubble patterns in Type I superconducting Indium and Lead slabs are studied by the high resolution magneto-optical imaging technique. The size of bubbles is found to be almost independent of the long-range interaction between the normal state domains. Under bubble diameter and slab thickness proper scaling, the results gather onto a single master curve. On this basis, in the framework of the "current-loop" model [R.E. Goldstein, D.P. Jackson and A.T. Dorsey, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3818 (1996)], we calculate the equilibrium diameter of an isolated bubble resulting from the competition between the Biot-and-Savart interaction of the Meissner current encircling the bubble and the superconductor-normal interface energy. A good quantitative agreement with the master curve is found over two decades of the magnetic Bond number. The isolation of each bubble in the superconducting matrix and the existence of a positive interface energy are shown to preclude any continuous size variation of the bubbles after their formation, contrary to the prediction of mean-field models.
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hal-00005259 , version 1 (10-06-2005)

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Vincent Jeudy, Catherine Gourdon, Takanori Okada. Impeded Growth of Magnetic Flux Bubbles in the Intermediate State Pattern of Type I Superconductors. Physical Review Letters, 2004, 92, pp.147001. ⟨hal-00005259⟩
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