Equilibrium and Driven Vortex Phases in the Anomalous Peak Effect

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1998-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9805087v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

5 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

We report a crucial experimental test of the present models of the peak effect in weakly disordered type-II superconductors. Our results favor the scenario in which the peak effect arises from a crossover between the Larkin pinning length and a rapidly falling elastic length in a vortex phase populated with thermally excited topological defects. A thickness dependence study of the onset of the peak effect at varying driving currents suggests that both screw and edge dislocations are involved in the vortex lattice disordering. The driven dynamics in 3D samples are drastically different from those in 2D samples. We suggest that this may be a consequence of the absence of a Peierls potential for screw dislocations in a vortex line lattice.

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