BARC/PUB/2002/0444

 
 

Vortex-state metastability at low-field disorder-order transition

 
     
 
Author(s)

Ravikumar, G. ; Kupfer, H.; Will, A.; and others
(TPPED)

Source

Physical Review-B, 2002. Vol. 65: Article no. 094507

ABSTRACT

We report history-dependent critical currents across the disordered solid to Bragg glass transition occurring in the low-field region in V3Si and NdBa2Cu3O2-x single crystals. This is in addition to the history depen-dence usually observed near the high-field Bragg-glass–disordered-solid transition. It is further shown that the metastable frozen-in disordered vortex matter coexists with the ordered phase in the entire Bragg glass region.We conclude that the amount of the metastable disordered phase prior to the high-field Bragg-glass–disordered-solid transition is crucial in nucleating further growth of the disordered phase near the transition.This mechanism results in the onset of the high-field peak to occur at lower fields when the frozen-in disor-dered phase prior to the transition is larger.

 
 
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