Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
1999-07-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
6 pages of text and 4 figures. Paper submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.62.11838
The magnetic field dependence of the critical current is studied in single crystal samples of the weak pinning type-II superconductor 2H-NbSe$_2$ in the high temperature and the low field region of the (H,T) phase space, in the vicinity of the reentrant peak effect. The experimental results demonstrate various pinning regimes : a collective pinned quasi-ordered solid in the intermediate field that is destabilized in favor of disordered vortex phases in both high fields near H$_{c2}$ and at low fields near H$_{c1}$. The temperature evolution of the pinning behavior demonstrates how the amorphous limit (where the correlation volume is nearly field independent) is approached around the so-called nose region of the reentrant peak effect boundary. Furthermore, the data show that the rapid approach to the amorphous limit naturally yields a peak effect, i.e., a peak in the critical current, in the high field regime, but yields a ``plateau effect'' instead in the low field regime in an analogous way. With increasing effective disorder the peak effect shifts away from H$_{c2}$ and resembles a ``fishtail'' anomaly.
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