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A bifurcation diagram for flux-tube dynamics

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A bifurcation diagram for flux droplets passing beneath a fixed Hall probe. As the driving current is increased, the time intervals between succesive pulses changes in a complex way. At low and high currents, a broad distribution of pulse sizes is observed. These distributions have been found to be consistent with deterministic chaos. For medium currents, only periodic trains of flux tubes are observed.

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