Thin strip in applied field swept with a constant rate

Shown movies:

Spatial distributions of magnetic field, H(x), current density, j(x), and electric field, E(x). The blue background correspond to the superconducting strip, while outside regions are black. Bottom: the magnetization hysteresis loop. The field is applied perpendicular to the strip.

H, j, E, and M are normalized to Hc, jc, Ec= vcBc, and Mc, where Mc is the magnetization of a strip with uniform current density equal to jc.

Parameters:

    pinning energy  U = Uc ln( j / jc ),   Uc/kT = 33,
    the maximal field  Hmax = 4 Hc;
    the field sweep rate  dH/dt = 0.001 Hmax vc / 2w;
    (Hc = d jc/ pi,   w and d are the strip halfwidth and thickness,
    vc is the vortex velocity at j = jc).

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