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Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2968–2971 (1992)

Unified model of switching and nonswitching charge-density-wave dynamics

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Jeremy Levy and Mark S. Sherwin
Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9530

Farid F. Abraham
IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120-6099

Kurt Wiesenfeld
School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430

Received 28 January 1992; published in the issue dated 11 May 1992

We show that the dynamics of both switching and nonswitching charge-density waves can be described by the classical Fukuyama-Lee-Rice model when the effects of normal carriers (present for T>0) are properly taken into account. We have constructed a circuit representation of the model and have performed numerical simulations in one dimension. We find switching in the limits of strong pinning or large normal-carrier resistance, consistent with experiment.

© 1992 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.2968
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.2968
PACS:
72.15.Nj, 05.45.+b