Dimensional crossover and commensurability effect in V/Ag superconducting multilayers
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 33 (3) , 2052-2055
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.33.2052
Abstract
Using V/Ag superconducting multilayers prepared by vacuum evaporation we have observed dimensional crossover from anisotropic three-dimensional to two-dimensional behavior in terms of the upper critical field versus temperature. At a higher temperature we have also observed an anomalous turning in the curve of the critical field, which implies the existence of a commensurability effect between the lattice of vortices and the periodic superstructure.Keywords
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