Optimum pinning of the vortex lattice in extremely type-II layered superconductors
C. E. Creffield, J. P. Rodriguez
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.144510 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
The two-dimensional (2D) vortex lattice in the extreme type-II limit is studied by Monte Carlo simulation of the corresponding 2D Coulomb gas, with identical pins placed at sites coinciding with the zero-temperature triangular vortex lattice. At weak pinning we find evidence for 2D melting into an intermediate hexatic phase. The strong pinning regime shows a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, driven by interstitial vortex/antivortex excitations. A stack of such identical layers with a weak Josephson coupling models a layered superconductor with a triangular arrangement of columnar pins at the matching field. A partial duality analysis finds that layer decoupling of the flux-line lattice does not occur at weak pinning for temperatures below 2D melting.
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