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Flux pinning and forced entanglement by splayed columnar defects

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OSTI ID:10161046
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)
  2. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Serin Physics Lab.
  3. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Lyman Lab. of Physics
  4. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
We propose controlled splay of artificial columnar defects in cuprate superconductors as a strategy to enhance transport properties in a field compared to parallel columns. The theory predicts a new ``splayed glass`` phase with a greatly reduced flux creep, an entangled ground state, and very slow response to a transverse field.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
10161046
Report Number(s):
ANL/MSD/CP--83111; CONF-940701--7; ON: DE94013994; CNN: Grant DMR-91-15491; Grant DMR-91-06237; Grant DMR-91-07752
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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