Towards Observing the Intercommutation of Flux Tubes in Superconductors

Abstract

We propose a simple experiment to investigate the intercommutation of flux tubes in type II superconductors. Using this method the intercommutation of strings can be observed directly and the dependence of intercommutation on the angle of crossing of strings can also be analyzed.

Comments: 8 pages (LATEX), three figures included at the end of the paper, NSF-ITP-94-21