QUANTUM MELTING OF THE VORTEX LATTICE IN HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS

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BLATTER, G [1 ]
IVLEV, B [1 ]
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[1] LD LANDAU THEORET PHYS INST,117940 MOSCOW,RUSSIA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2621
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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In the new high-T(c) superconductors both thermal as well as quantum fluctuations are large. The latter smear the vortex cores over a distance of the order of the coherence length and thereby strongly affect the melting transition. Taking account of quantum fluctuations, the shape of the melting line is given by a universal function which is different from a simple power law in 1 - T/T(c) and is in excellent agreement with recent experiments on YBa2Cu3O7-delta single crystals. Above a crossover field of the order of a few tesla the resulting high-temperature phase is a quantum liquid.
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