Resistive evidence for vortex-lattice sublimation in Bi{sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8}

Journal Article · Sat Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1997 · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.55.R6156· OSTI ID:510618

Fuchs, D T ^[1]; Doyle, R A ^[1]; Zeldov, E; Majer, D ^[1]; Seow, W S ^[2]; Drost, R J ^[3]; Tamegai, T; Ooi, S ^[4]; Konczykowski, M ^[5]; Kes, P H ^[3]

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1. Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 (Israel)
2. Interdisciplinary Research Center in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 OHE (England)
3. Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands)
4. Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 (Japan)
5. Laboratoire des Solides Irradies, CNRS URA-1380, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau (France)

Multiterminal measurements have been made on Bi{sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8} crystals to investigate the vortex dimensionality at the fields and temperatures where the first-order transition takes place in the vortex lattice. A sharp hysteretic transition is seen in transport properties with current injected either parallel or perpendicular to the ab planes. The data indicate that both resistivity components disappear concurrently, and the melting and c-axis decoupling transitions occur simultaneously at a sublimation transition of the vortex lattice. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}

• OSTI ID: 510618
• Journal Information: Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter, Journal Name: Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 55; ISSN PRBMDO; ISSN 0163-1829
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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