Thermodynamics of the vortex liquid in heavy ion-irradiated superconductors

Details Thermodynamics of the vortex liquid in heavy ion-irradiated superconductors Thermodynamics of the vortex liquid in heavy ion-irradiated superconductors

2005-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504100v2

Phys. Rev. B 72, 214504 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 9 figures, resubmitted to PRB 23-09-2005

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.214504

It is shown that the large effect of heavy ion-irradiation on the thermodynamical properties of the anisotropic superconductor YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-\delta}$ extends well into the superconducting fluctuation regime. The presence of the induced amorphous columnar defects shifts the specific heat maximum at the normal-to-superconducting transition. This effect is similar to that recently put into evidence in cubic K$_{x}$Ba$_{1-x}$BiO$_{3}$ ($x \simeq 0.35$). In both compounds, vortex pinning manifests itself as a sharp angular dependence of the \em equilibrium \rm torque. In YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-\delta}$, pinning by the defects appears at the temperature $T_{C_{p}}^{max}$ of the specific heat maximum, well above the magnetic irreversibility line $T_{irr}(H)$. In isotropic K$_{x}$Ba$_{1-x}$BiO$_{3}$, the onset of the pinning-related torque anomaly tracks the onset of the specific heat anomaly and the irreversibility line. In YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-\delta}$, fluctuations of the amplitude of the order parameter (and not vortex line wandering) are ultimately responsible for the vanishing of pinning. In K$_{x}$Ba$_{1-x}$BiO$_{3}$, vortex pinning disappears only at the superconducting-to-normal transition. The results indicate that in both compounds, the pinning energy at the ``Bose glass'' transition is large with respect to the total free energy gain in the superconducting state. By implication, the mechanism of this latter transition should be reconsidered.

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