Third Harmonics of the AC Magnetic Susceptibility: a method for the study of flux dynamics in High Temperature Superconductors

Details Third Harmonics of the AC Magnetic Susceptibility: a method for the study of flux dynamics in High Temperature Superconductors Third Harmonics of the AC Magnetic Susceptibility: a method for the study of flux dynamics in High Temperature Superconductors

2003-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310033v1

Eur. Phys. J. B 36, 26 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

28 pages, 8 figures, to be published on Europ. Phys. Journ. B

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2003-00314-1

The temperature dependence of the 1st and 3rd harmonics of the AC magnetic susceptibility has been measured on melt grown YBCO samples for different frequencies and amplitudes of the AC magnetic field and intensity of a contemporaneously applied DC field. With the help of critical state models and of numerical simulations, we have devised a novel method, based on the combined analysis of the 1st and the 3rd harmonics that allows to distinguish different temperature ranges dominated by the different dissipative magnetic flux regimes. In particular, we identified three principal zones in the temperature dependence of the real part of the 3rd harmonic: the zone 1, in the temperature range below the peak of the imaginary part of the 1st harmonic, Tp, and the zone 2, characterized by negative values in a temperature region of the real part of the 3rd harmonics, just above Tp, both dominated by the creep regime; the zone 3, just below Tc, in which we revealed the presence of Thermally Assisted Flux Flow (TAFF). By the identification of these zones, an estimation of the value of the pinning potential can be obtained.

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