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Numerical Studies Of Iron Based Superconductors Using Spin-Fermion Models, Christopher Brian Bishop Dec 2017

Numerical Studies Of Iron Based Superconductors Using Spin-Fermion Models, Christopher Brian Bishop

Doctoral Dissertations

The iron pnictide and iron chalchogenide superconductors are studied numerically using classical Monte Carlo techniques to reproduce experimental data and make predictions about the nature of the relevant interactions. The focus will be using Spin-Fermion models in a classical approximation to explore the phase diagram and calculate important physical properties of these materials over a wide range of temperatures.


Computational Exploration Of Vortex Nucleation In Type Ii Superconductors Using A Finite Element Method In Ginzburg-Landau Theory, Alden Roy Pack Dec 2017

Computational Exploration Of Vortex Nucleation In Type Ii Superconductors Using A Finite Element Method In Ginzburg-Landau Theory, Alden Roy Pack

Theses and Dissertations

Using a finite element method, we numerically solve the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations of superconductivity to explore vortex nucleation in type II superconductors. We consider a cylindrical geometry and simulate the transition from a superconducting state to a mixed state. Using saddle-node bifurcation theory we evaluate the superheating field for a cylinder. We explore how surface roughness and thermal fluctuations influence vortex nucleation. This allows us to simulate material inhomogeneities that may lead to instabilities in superconducting resonant frequency cavities used in particle accelerators.


Computational Exploration Of Vortex Nucleation In Type Ii Superconductors Using A Finite Element Method In Ginzburg-Landau Theory, Alden Roy Pack Dec 2017

Computational Exploration Of Vortex Nucleation In Type Ii Superconductors Using A Finite Element Method In Ginzburg-Landau Theory, Alden Roy Pack

Theses and Dissertations

Using a finite element method, we numerically solve the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations of superconductivity to explore vortex nucleation in type II superconductors. We consider a cylindrical geometry and simulate the transition from a superconducting state to a mixed state. Using saddle-node bifurcation theory we evaluate the superheating field for a cylinder. We explore how surface roughness and thermal fluctuations influence vortex nucleation. This allows us to simulate material inhomogeneities that may lead to instabilities in superconducting resonant frequency cavities used in particle accelerators.


Temperature Dependence Of Dynamical Spin Injection In A Superconducting Niobium Thin Film, Tyler S. Townsend Jan 2017

Temperature Dependence Of Dynamical Spin Injection In A Superconducting Niobium Thin Film, Tyler S. Townsend

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Spintronics is a research field that focuses on the manipulation of the quantum mechanical spin of charge carriers in solid state materials for future technological applications. Creating large spin currents with large relaxation times is sought after in the field of spintronics which may be aided by combining spintronics with superconductivity. This thesis provides a phenomological study of the effective change in ferromagnetic resonance linewidth, by dynamical spin injection into a permalloy-copper-niobium tri-layer in the superconducting state. The ferromagetic resonance linewidth was measured from 2-14 K. It was observed that there was a change in the behavior of the resonance …