Impact of long-range interactions on the disordered vortex lattice

Details Impact of long-range interactions on the disordered vortex lattice Impact of long-range interactions on the disordered vortex lattice

2003-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302225v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.014515

The interaction between the vortex lines in a type-II superconductor is mediated by currents. In the absence of transverse screening this interaction is long-ranged, stiffening up the vortex lattice as expressed by the dispersive elastic moduli. The effect of disorder is strongly reduced, resulting in a mean-squared displacement correlator = <[u(R,L)-u(0,0)]^2> characterized by a mere logarithmic growth with distance. Finite screening cuts the interaction on the scale of the London penetration depth \lambda and limits the above behavior to distances R<\lambda. Using a functional renormalization group (RG) approach, we derive the flow equation for the disorder correlation function and calculate the disorder-averaged mean-squared relative displacement \propto ln^{2\sigma} (R/a_0). The logarithmic growth (2\sigma=1) in the perturbative regime at small distances [A.I. Larkin and Yu.N. Ovchinnikov, J. Low Temp. Phys. 34, 409 (1979)] crosses over to a sub-logarithmic growth with 2\sigma=0.348 at large distances.

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