Zapperi, Stefano; Andrade, José S.; Moreira, André A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 342 (2004) 1, pp. 383-387
We study flux penetration in a disordered type II superconductor by simulations of interacting vortices, using a Monte-Carlo method for vortex nucleation. Our results show that a detailed description of the nucleation process yields a correction to the scaling laws usually associated with flux...