Anomalous Peak Effect in CeRu2 and NbSe2 : Fracturing of a Flux Line Lattice?

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4 September 1997

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9709066

Abstract

CeRu2 and 2H-NbSe2 display remarkable similarities in their magnetic response, reflecting the manner in which the weakly pinned flux line lattice (FLL) loses spatial order in the Peak Effect (PE) regime. The discontinuous change in screening response near the onset of PE and the history dependence in it are attributed to a disorder-induced fracturing transition of the FLL, as an alternative to the scenario involving the appearance of a spatial modulation in superconducting order parameter in CeRu2.

Keywords

SUPERCONDUCTING
ANOMALOUS PEAK
LINE LATTICE
PEAK EFFECT
FRACTURING
FLUX LINE
CERU2
NBSE2
FLL

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