Equipartition of Current in Parallel Conductors on Cooling Through the Superconducting Transition
S. Sarangi, S. P. Chockalingam, Raghav G Mavinkurve, S. V. Bhat, N. Kumar
Abstract
Our experiments show that for two or more pieces of a wire, of different lengths in general, combined in parallel and connected to a dc source, the current ratio evolves towards unity as the combination is cooled to the superconducting transition temperature Tc, and remains pinned at that value below it. This re-distribution of the total current towards equipartition without external fine tuning is a surprise. It can be physically understood in terms of a mechanism that involves the flux-flow resistance associated with the transport current in a wire of type-II superconducting material. It is the fact that the flux-flow resistance increases with current that drives the current division towards equipartition.
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