Low magnetic relaxation in a single crystal and a melt processed NdBa2Cu3O7-delta sample

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vanDalen, AJJ [1 ]
Koblischka, MR [1 ]
Kojo, H [1 ]
Sawada, K [1 ]
Higuchi, T [1 ]
Murakami, M [1 ]
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[1] INT SUPERCONDUCT TECHNOL CTR,SUPERCONDUCT RES LAB,MINATO KU,TOKYO 105,JAPAN
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10.1088/0953-2048/9/8/007
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Induced current densities j(s) and magnetic relaxation rates S = -d ln j(s)/d ln t were measured over a wide temperature (5 less than or equal to T less than or equal to 90 K) and field range (O less than or equal to mu(0)H(a) less than or equal to 7 T) on a single crystal and a melt processed sample of NdBa(2)Cu(3)O7-delta using a SQUID magnetometer. The temperature dependence of the magnetic relaxation rate shows a pronounced minimum at elevated temperatures. This leads to very high values of the effective pinning energy U-0(77 K) = 4500 K and U-0(77 K) = 2900 K for the single crystal and the melt processed sample respectively, for an applied magnetic field mu(0)H(a) = 1.0 T. Furthermore, these samples show a well developed fishtail effect, leading to a current density j(s)(77 K, mu(0)H(a) = 2 T) = 3 x 10(4) A m(-2). This demonstrates that the fishtail effect is closely related to the low relaxation rates observed here.
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