Estudo de materiais supercondutores em forma de SQUID com uma constrição usando métodos de paralelização computacional

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Severino, André Luiz [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Supercondutividade; Movimento turbulento; Magnetometro; Simulação (Computadores); Superconductivity
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132696; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/14-12-2015/000854891.pdf

It is remarkable the current development of science and technology related to superconducting materials. Examples of using this type of material, such as storage of energy as supercurrents, the Maglev-type trains, which also provides use of supercurrents generating high values of magnetic field that can provide levitation and propulsion. Aplications of this nature, among others, require a deep understanding of the bahavior of the fundamental physical properties of superconductors, both from the macroscopic and microscopic point of view. As one example, the formation of vortex lattice in superconducting materials in the presence of applied magnetic fields and/or transport chains whose magnitudes when they exceed certain critical values allow the quantized magnetic flux entrance. With respect to the methods used in this work, we studied the behavior and characteristics of a material with mesoscopic dimensions in a geometry of a superconducting quantum interference device - SQUID. Such device is a kind of very sensitive magnetometer, able to perform very faint magnetic fields measures - using a computer simulation algorithm. The simulation basically acts to apply magnetic fields at certain time steps - with fixed temperature - to the modeled material, allowing the study of the characteristics of this type of material by means of output data generated by the simulator, which allows the construction of graphs to study the order parameter behavior, current densities, vortex formation, and other related parameters. Thus, we review the phenomenological theories and developed a numerical solution algorithm of the involved equations, which have no exact solution. Then we use the CUDA technology with the C language to implement this algorithm and apply it to solving the problem of a SQUID with a small construction. Finally, the graphics are constructed using the data generated by the simulator for analysis and interprettion of the behavior of the...