Metastable states of flux line ensembles and the Bragg glass

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The behaviour of flux line lattices (FLL) in type-II superconductors are heavily affected by the presence of impurities in the sample. Impurities or crystalline defects reduce the order parameter and thereby act as pinning sites for the vortices. At low fields and temperatures the flux line lattice exists in the so-called Bragg glass (BrG) phase, a phase characterized by an algebraically decaying translational order, where the vortices are only weakly distorted by the pinning sites. As the field or temperature is increased dislocations in the flux line lattice cause the quasi-long range order to be replaced by short-range correlations, signifying the transition to a disordered vortex glass phase.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-456
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-456
Provenance
Creator Larsen, Camilla Buhl; Laver, Mark; Cubitt, Robert
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2017
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 1 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields