Critical current, effect strain

Subsequent to the work of Gregory et al. [ ], two conductors were used to investigate the effect of strain on critical current. Data were taken between 8 and 12 T for strains up to 0.9%. The critical current was measured at each field value for a given strain, and then the strain was raised to the next value. After the final... 

Because the recent experiments and simulations reviewed here concentrated on the universal aspects of the novel non-equilibrium transition, focus will be laid on the MCT-ITT approach. Reassuringly, however, many similarities between the MCT-ITT equations and the results by Miyazaki and Relchman exist, even though these authors used a different, field theoretic approach to derive their results. This supports the robustness of the mechanism of shear-advection in (7) entering the MCT vertices in (lid, 14), which were derived independently in [40, 41] and [43 5] from quite different theoretical routes. This mechanism had been known from earlier work on the dynamics of critical fluctuations in sheared systems close to phase transition points [61], on current fluctuations in simple liquids [62], and on incoherent density fluctuations in dilute solutions [63], Different possibilities also exist to include shear into MCT-inspired approaches, especially the one worked out by Schweizer and coworkers including strain into an effective free energy [42]. This approach does not recover the (idealized) MCT results reviewed below but starts from the extended MCT where no true glass transition exists and describes a crossover scenario without, e.g., a true dynamic yield stress as discussed below. 

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