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The penetration of a magnetic flux into a type-II high-T c superconductor occupying the half-space x > 0 is considered. At the superconductor surface, the magnetic field amplitude increases in accordance with the law b(0, t) = b 0(1 + t)m (in dimensionless coordinates), where m > 0. The velocity of penetration of vortices is determined in the regime of thermally activated magnetic flux flow: v = v 0exp⨑ub;−(U 0/T )(1-b∂b/∂x)⫂ub;, where U 0 is the effective pinning energy and T is the thermal energy of excited vortex filaments (or their bundles). magnetic flux “Giant” creep (for which U 0/T≪ 1) is considered. The model Navier-Stokes equation is derived with nonlinear “viscosity” v ∝ U 0/T and convection velocity v f ∝ (1 − U 0/T). It is shown that motion of vortices is of the diffusion type for j → 0 (j is the current density). For finite current densities 0 < j < j c, magnetic flux convection takes place, leading to an increase in the amplitude and depth of penetration of the magnetic field into the superconductor. It is shown that the solution to the model equation is finite at each instant (i.e., the magnetic flux penetrates to a finite depth). The penetration depth x Aeff (t) ∝ (1 + t)(1 + m/2)/2 of the magnetic field in the superconductor and the velocity of the wavefront, which increases linearly in exponent m, exponentially in temperature T, and decreases upon an increase in the effective pinning barrier, are determined. A distinguishing feature of the solutions is their self-similarity; i.e., dissipative magnetic structures emerging in the case of giant creep are invariant to transformations b(x, t) = βm b(t/β, x/β(1 + m/2)/2), where β > 0.
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Original Russian Text © I.B. Krasnyuk, 2007, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 77, No. 5, pp. 30–34.
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Krasnyuk, I.B. Self-similar magnetic structures and magnetic flux “Giant” creep. Tech. Phys. 52, 565–570 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784207050052
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