Nonlinear conduction of sliding electronic crystals: Charge and Spin Density Waves
Abstract
A model of local metastable states due to the pinning induces plastic deformations allows to describe the nonlinear I-V curves in sliding density waves -DW. With increasing the DW velocity v, the metastable states of decreasing lifetimes ~1/v are accessed. The characteristic second threshold field is reached when configurations of shortest life time are accessed by the fast moving DW. Thus the DW works as a kind of a ``linear accelerator'' testing virtual states.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 1999
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9911100
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/9911100
- Bibcode:
- 1999cond.mat.11100B
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- To be published in Proceedings of ECRYS-99, J. de Physique, Coll., December 1999, http://ipnweb.in2p3.fr/~lptms/membres/brazov/