Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2003-08-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
to be published in International Book series "Studies of High Temperature Superconductors", edited by Anant Narlikar, Nova Sci
Scientific paper
We explore in detail the angular dependent vortex dynamics in type II superconductors with aligned columnar defects introduced by irradiation with very energetic heavy-ions. We use dc magnetization measurements deep in the vortex solid phase, and ac susceptibility near the solid-liquid transition. We show that aligned columnar defects are an excellent tool to test models for vortex dynamics, particularly if they are tilted with respect to the crystallographic axes, so their effects can be easily distinguished from those arising from mass anisotropy, sample geometry, twin boundaries and intrinsic pinning. This allows us, for instance, to use the uniaxial pinning of the columnar defects as a probe to determine the orientation of the vortices inside a bulk material, which in general is different from the orientation of the applied fields. In some aspects we have found an excellent agreement with the theoretical expectations of the Bose-glass model. The field dependence of the lock-in angle follows remarkably well the 1/H prediction over the whole temperature range of our measurements. In turn, the temperature dependence of the lock-in angle gives strong support to the concept of an effective pinning energy dominated by the entropic smearing effect. On the other hand, both our ac and dc results show that columnar defects produce effective pinning over a wide angular range, and that correlated pinning dominates the scenario for all field orientations. One consequence of this is the existence of a rich variety of vortex staircases.
Civale Leonardo
Pasquini Gabriela
Silhanek Alejandro V.
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