Nonmonotonic flux flow in inhomogeneous superconductors above the percolation threshold

Flux flow resistivity above critical temperature is analyzed based on the increased evidences that high temperature superconductors are intrinsically inhomogeneous, and local nonpercolating superconducting domains persist high above the critical temperature. It was found that above a certain field, the resistivity originated in the flow of flux motion starts to decrease with increasing field, due to the predominance of the suppression of the superconducting droplets over the increase of vortex core density.