| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 67, Number 4, August 2004
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 655 - 661 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10093-9 | |
| Published online | 01 August 2004 | |
Peak effect and surface crystal-glass transition for surface-pinned vortex array
1
Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
2
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Received:
5
March
2004
Accepted:
7
June
2004
We present a theoretical and experimental study of the peak effect
in the surface pinning of vortices. It is associated with a sharp
transition in the vortex slippage length which we relate to a
crossover from a weakly disordered crystal to a surface glass
state. Experiments are performed on ion-beam–etched 
crystals. The slippage length is deduced from
1
–1
linear AC penetration depth measurements.
PACS: 74.25.Qt – Vortex lattices, flux pinning, flux creep / 64.60.Cn – Order-isorder transformations; statistical mechanics of model systems
© EDP Sciences, 2004
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.