IMAGES OF THE VORTEX CHAIN STATE IN UNTWINNED YBA2CU3O7-DELTA CRYSTALS

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GAMMEL, PL [1 ]
BISHOP, DJ [1 ]
RICE, JP [1 ]
GINSBERG, DM [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ILLINOIS,DEPT PHYS,URBANA,IL 61801
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3343
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O4 [物理学];
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A vortex lattice consisting of a pinstripe pattern of vortex chains has been observed in untwinned YBa2Cu3O7-delta crystals. This state is present when the field is tilted away from the c axis, and is oriented with the chains confined to the plane defined by B and e. The chains arise from the attractive part of the vortex-vortex interaction in this geometry as described within the anisotropic London equations. For B > PHI-0/2-pi-2 the chains merge into an oriented vortex lattice. From the fitted value of lambda, we can conclude that the microscopic irreversibility temperature is T/T(c) approximately 0.92 for B approximately 20 G.
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