Direct determination of the collective pinning radius in the cuprate superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
M. I. Dolz, A. B. Kolton, H. Pastoriza
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.092502 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We study the onset of the irreversible magnetic behavior of vortex matter in micron-sized Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals by using silicon micro-oscillators. We find an irreversibility line appearing well below the thermodynamic Bragg-glass melting line at a magnetic field which increases both with increasing the sample radius and with decreasing the temperature, paradoxically implying the existence of a reversible vortex solid. We show that at this irreversibility line, the sample radius can be identified with the crossover length between the Larkin and the random-manifold regimes of the vortex-lattice transverse roughness. Our method thus allows to determine, as a function of temperature and applied magnetic field, the minimum size of a vortex system that can be collectively pinned, or the so-called three-dimensional weak collective pinning Larkin radius, in a direct way.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 84.2 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
| Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 85.3 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
| Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 89.6 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
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