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General Features of Quantum Creep in High- Tc Superconductors

A. F. Th. Hoekstra, R. Griessen, A. M. Testa, J. el Fattahi, M. Brinkmann, K. Westerholt, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4293 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

Measurements of the relaxation rate QT of superconducting currents have been performed on a carefully selected set of dirty and clean high- Tc superconductors for temperatures T down to 100 mK and magnetic fields up to 7 T. The extrapolated relaxation rates Q0 for the dirty compounds indicate that the viscosity experienced by a tunneling vortex segment is grossly underestimated by the standard Bardeen-Stephen theory. For the clean compounds a universal value Q0≅0.022 is found at 1 T, implying that the number of superconducting charge carriers involved in the tunneling of a vortex segment is ≅14.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
Pr1.85Ce0.15CuO4-δ

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Pr1.85Ce0.15CuO4-δ

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23.2Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu3O7

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42Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu3O7

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67Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu3O7

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77Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu3O6.55

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66Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu3O6.6

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52Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu3O6.7

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57Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu3O7-δ

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92Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu3O7-δ

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92Pressure not reportedunknown
YBa2Cu4O8

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80Pressure not reportedunknown
Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8

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114Pressure not reportedunknown
Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8

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88Pressure not reportedunknown

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