Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-04-30
Physics
Condensed Matter
29 pages of plain TeX, 2 postscript figures, improved discussion
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/9/24/011
The issue of the decoupling of extreme type-II superconducting thin films ($\lambda_L\rightarrow\infty$) with weakly Josephson-coupled layers in magnetic field parallel to the layers is considered via the corresponding frustrated $XY$ model used to describe the mixed phase in the critical regime. For the general case of arbitrary field orientations such that the perpendicular magnetic field component is larger than the decoupling cross-over scale characteristic of layered superconductors, we obtain independent parallel and perpendicular vortex lattices. Specializing to the double-layer case, we compute the parallel lower-critical field with entropic effects included, and find that it vanishes exponentially as temperature approaches the layer decoupling transition in zero-field. The parallel reversible magnetization is also calculated in this case, where we find that it shows a cross-over phenomenon as a function of parallel field in the intermediate regime of the mixed phase in lieu of a true layer-decoupling transition. It is argued that such is the case for any finite number of layers, since the isolated double layer represents the weakest link.
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