Plastic vortex-creep in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$ crystals

Details Plastic vortex-creep in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$ crystals Plastic vortex-creep in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$ crystals

1996-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/supr-con/9606003v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

10 pages, RevTeX type, 4 PS figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1596

Local magnetic relaxation measurements in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$ crystals show evidence for plastic vortex-creep associated with the motion of dislocations in the vortex lattice. This creep mechanism governs the vortex dynamics in a wide range of temperatures and fields below the melting line and above the field corresponding to the peak in the ''fishtail'' magnetization. In this range the activation energy $U_{pl}$, which decreases with field, drops below the elastic (collective) creep activation energy, $U_{el}$, which increases with field. A crossover in flux dynamics from elastic to plastic creep is shown to be the origin of the fishtail in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$.

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