Superconducting vortices provide experimental evidence that clogging is a phase transition

Clogging is a phenomenon in which moving particles get stuck, slowing or blocking the flow, but how this transition occurs ...

[Research Bulletin] Distinguishing clogging from defect trapping by reversing flow. Demonstrating non-equilibrium phase transition in superconducting vortices.

A research team including members from Institute of Science Tokyo has used magnetic flux vortices moving within a ...