Topology effects on the heat capacity of mesoscopic superconducting disks

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2007-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/0708.3035v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/79/67003

Phase transitions in superconducting mesoscopic disks have been studied over the H-T phase diagram through heat capacity measurement of an array of independent aluminium disks. These disks exhibit non periodic modulations versus H of the height of the heat capacity jump at the superconducting to normal transition. This behaviour is attributed to giant vortex states characterized by their vorticity L. A crossover from a bulk-like to a mesoscopic behaviour is demonstrated. $C_{\rm p}$ versus H plots exhibit cascades of phase transitions as L increases or decreases by one unity, with a strong hysteresis. Phase diagrams of giant vortex states inside the superconducting region are drawn in the vortex penetration and expulsion regimes and phase transitions driven by temperature between vortex states are thus predicted in the zero field cooled regime before being experimentally evidenced.

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