An explanation of the irreversibility behavior in the highly- anisotropic high-temperature superconductors
The wide temperature range of the reversible, lossy state of the new high-temperature superconductors in a magnetic field was recognized soon after their discovery. This behavior, which had gone virtually undetected in conventional superconductors, has generated considerable interest, both for a fundamental understanding of the HTS and because it degrades the performance of HTS for finite-field applications. We show that recently proposed explanation of this behavior for the highly-anisotropic high-temperature superconductors, as a dimensional crossover of the magnetic vortices, is strongly supported by recent experiments on a Bi{sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub x} single crystal using the high-Q mechanical oscillator techniques.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 10144617
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/MSD/PP--73644; ON: DE94010441
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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