Paramagnetic reentrance of the ac-screening: Evidence of vortex avalanches in Pb thin films

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2004-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407737v1

Phys. Rev. B 70, 144504 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.144504

We have studied the influence of a square array of pinning centers on the dynamics of vortex avalanches in Pb thin films by means of ac- and dc- magnetization measurements. Close to the superconducting transition Tc the commensurability between the vortex lattice and the pinning array leads to the well known local increments of the critical current. As temperature T decreases, matching features progressively fade out and eventually disappear. Further down in temperature vortex avalanches develop and dominate the magnetic response. These avalanches manifest themselves as jumps in the dc-magnetization and produce a lower ac-shielding giving rise to a paramagnetic reentrance in the ac-screening x'(T). Within the flux jump regime two subregimes can be identified. Close to the boundary where vortex avalanches develope, the field separation between consecutive jumps follow the periodicity of the pinning array and a field and temperature dependent screening is observed. In this regime, the response also depends on frequency f in agreement with theoretical models for magnetothermal instabilities. At low enough temperatures and fields, the screening saturates to a constant value independent of T, H, and f, where jumps are randomly distributed. We have also found that vortex instabilities occupy a larger portion of the H-T diagram in patterned samples than in films without nanoengineered pinning sites. Finally, we discuss the possible origin of the vortex avalanches and compare our results with previous experimental and theoretical studies.

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