Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1993-12-14
Physics
Condensed Matter
53 pages and 15 figures, available upon request, written in plain TEX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.49.9723
Interstitials and vacancies in the Abrikosov phase of clean Type II superconductors are line imperfections, which cannot extend across macroscopic equilibrated samples at low temperatures. We argue that the entropy associated with line wandering nevertheless can cause these defects to proliferate at a sharp transition which will exist if this occurs below the temperature at which the crystal actually melts. Vortices are both entangled and crystalline in the resulting ``supersolid'' phase, which in a dual ``boson'' analog system is closely related to a two-dimensional quantum crystal of He$^4$ with interstitials or vacancies in its ground state. The supersolid {\it must} occur for $B\gg B_\times$, where $B_\times$ is the decoupling field above which vortices begin to behave two-dimensionally. Numerical calculations show that interstitials, rather than vacancies, are the preferred defect for $B\gg \phi_0/\lambda_\perp^2$, and allow us to estimate whether proliferation also occurs for $B\,\lot\,B_\times$.The implications of the supersolid phase for transport measurements, dislocation configurations and neutron diffraction are discussed.
Fisher Daniel S.
Frey Erwin
Nelson David R.
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