Crossing lattices, vortex chains, and angular dependence of melting line in layered superconductors

Details Crossing lattices, vortex chains, and angular dependence of melting line in layered superconductors Crossing lattices, vortex chains, and angular dependence of melting line in layered superconductors

1999-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9901122v3

Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 83, 187 (1999);Erratum:83, 1274, (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 Pages, 2 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.187

We investigate vortex structure and melting transition in very anisotropic layered superconductors at fields tilted with respect to the c-axis. We show that even a small in-plane field does not homogeneously tilt the vortex lattice but, instead, penetrates inside the superconductor in the form of Josephson vortices (JVs) similar to the Meissner state. At high c-axis magnetic field the phase field of the JV is built up from the phase perturbations created by displacements of pancake vortices. The crossing-lattices ground state leads to linear dependencies of the melting field and melting temperature on the in-plane field, in agreement with recent experimental observations. At small fields stacks of JVs accumulate additional pancake strings creating vortex rows with enhanced density. This mechanism explains the mixed chains-lattice state observed by Bitter decorations.

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