Freezing transition of the vortex liquid in anisotropic superconductors

Details Freezing transition of the vortex liquid in anisotropic superconductors Freezing transition of the vortex liquid in anisotropic superconductors

1999-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9904183v1

Phys. Rev. B 61, 784--790 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.61.784

We study the solid-liquid transition of a model of pancake vortices in laminar superconductors using a density functional theory of freezing. The physical properties of the system along the melting line are discussed in detail. We show that there is a very good agreement with experimental data in the shape and position of the first order transition in the phase diagram and in the magnitude and temperature dependence of the magnetic induction jump at the transition. We analyze the validity of the Lindemann melting criterion and the Hansen-Verlet freezing criterion. Both criteria are shown to be good to predict the phase diagram in the region where a first order phase transition is experimentally observed.

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