Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-01-31
Physics
Condensed Matter
Extensively revised paper, with modified analysis of elastic instabilities. Calculation of the lower critical field is include
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.55.3856
The stability of the flux line lattice has been investigated within anisotropic London theory. This is the first full-scale investigation of instabilities in the `chain' state. It has been found that the lattice is stable at large fields, but that instabilities occur as the field is reduced. The field at which these instabilities first arise, $b^*(\epsilon,\theta)$, depends on the anisotropy $\epsilon$ and the angle $\theta$ at which the lattice is tilted away from the $c$-axis. These instabilities initially occur at wavevector $k^*(\epsilon,\theta)$, and the component of $k^*$ along the average direction of the flux lines, $k_z$, is always finite. As the instability occurs at finite $k_z$ the dependence of the cutoff on $k_z$ is important, and we have used a cutoff suggested by Sudb\ospace and Brandt. The instabilities only occur for values of the anisotropy $\epsilon$ appropriate to a material like BSCCO, and not for anisotropies more appropriate to YBCO. The lower critical field $H_{c_1}(\phi)$ is calculated as a function of the angle $\phi$ at which the applied field is tilted away from the crystal axis. The presence of kinks in $H_{c_1}(\phi)$ is seen to be related to instabilities in the equilibrium flux line structure.
Moore Anna M.
Thompson Maggie A.
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