Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2008-01-29
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
4 figures 8 pages Submitted to PRB
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.064504
We have studied the magnetic characteristics of a series of super-oxygenated La2-xSrxCuO4+y samples. As shown in previous work, these samples spontaneously phase separate into an oxygen rich superconducting phase with a TC near 40 K and an oxygen poor magnetic phase that also orders near 40 K. All samples studied are highly magnetically reversible even to low temperatures. Although the internal magnetic regions of these samples might be expected to act as pinning sites, our present study shows that they do not favor flux pinning. Flux pinning requires a matching condition between the defect and the superconducting coherence length. Thus, our results imply that the magnetic regions are too large to act as pinning centers. This also implies that the much greater flux pinning in typical La2-xSrxCuO4 materials is the result of nanoscale inhomogeneities that grow to become the large magnetic regions in the super-oxygenated materials. The superconducting regions of the phase separated materials are in that sense cleaner and more homogenous than in the typical cuprate superconductor.
Budnick Joseph I.
Chou Fang-Chieh
Hines W. A.
Mohottala Hashini E.
Niedermayer Ch.
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