Anisotropy of the superconducting state properties and phase diagram of MgB2 by torque magnetometry on single crystals

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2002-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210701v1

Physica C 385, 143 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

12 pages, 8 figures, Physica C in print (invited paper for a special issue on MgB2)

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0921-4534(02)02297-9

The angular and temperature dependence of the upper critical field Hc2 in MgB2 was determined from torque magnetometry measurements on single crystals. The Hc2 anisotropy gamma_H was found to decrease with increasing temperature, in disagreement with the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau theory, which predicts that the gamma_H is temperature independent. This behaviour can be explained by the two band nature of superconductivity in MgB2. An analysis of measurements of the reversible torque in the mixed state yields a field dependent effective anisotropy gamma_eff, which can be at least partially explained by different anisotropies of the penetration depth and the upper critical field. It is shown that a peak effect in fields of about 0.85 Hc2 is a manifestation of an order-disorder phase transition of vortex matter. The H-T phase diagram of MgB2 for H//c correlates with the intermediate strength of thermal fluctuations in MgB2, as compared to those in high and low Tc superconductors.

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