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Rotational magnetic processes in a dirty superconductor

Liwen Liu, J. S. Kouvel, T. O. Brun

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.38.11799 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Magnetization-vector (M) measurements were made on a thin disk of impure Nb rotated relative to a fixed field H at 4.2 K. For all H, M is found to be separable into a nonrotating diamagnetic component Md plus a penetrating-flux component Mp that turns rigidly with the sample for small rotation angles. For H below Hc1 on a hysteresis loop, Mp diminishes in size but continues to rotate rigidly up to 360°. For H between Hc1 and Hc2, Mp rotates up to and then remains at some critical angle, indicating a constant frictional torque between Mp and the sample, which presumably arises from vortex-flux jumps between pinning centers. Moreover, Md closely equals −H4π for H above as well as below Hc1.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
Nb

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7.4Pressure not reportedunknown
La1.85Sr0.15CuO4

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