Phase diagrams of flux lattices with disorder
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 55 (10) , 6577-6583
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.55.6577
Abstract
We review the prediction, made in a previous work [T. Giamarchi and P. Le Doussal, Phys. Rev. B 52, 1242 (1995)], that the phase diagram of type-II superconductors consists of a topologically ordered Bragg glass phase at low fields undergoing a transition at higher fields into a vortex glass or a liquid. We estimate the position of the phase boundary using a Lindemann criterion. We find that the proposed theory is compatible with recent experiments on superconductors. Further experimental consequences are investigated.Keywords
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