Collective pinning of a frozen vortex liquid in ultrathin superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 films

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Calame, M [1 ]
Korshunov, SE
Leemann, C
Martinoli, P
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[1] Univ Neuchatel, Inst Phys, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland
[2] LD Landau Theoret Phys Inst, Moscow 117940, Russia
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3630
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O4 [物理学];
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The linear dynamic response of the two-dimensional (2D) vortex medium in ultrathin YBa2Cu3O7 films was studied by measuring their ac sheet impedance Z over a broad range of frequencies omega. With decreasing temperature the dissipative component of Z exhibits, at a temperature T*(omega) well above the melting temperature of a 2D vortex crystal, a crossover from a thermally activated regime involving single vortices to a regime where the response has features consistent with a description in terms of a collectively pinned vortex manifold. This suggests the idea of a vortex liquid which, below T*(omega), appears to be frozen at the time scales 1/omega of the experiments.
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