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Real-Space Vortex Glass Imaging and the Vortex Phase Diagram of SnMo6S8

Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 103, no. 25
Publication date2009
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Using scanning tunneling microscopy at 400 mK, we have obtained maps of around 100 vortices in SnMo6S8 from 2–9 T. The orientational and positional disorder at 5 and 9 T show that these are the first large-scale images of a vortex glass. At higher temperature a magnetization peak effect is observed, whose upper boundary coincides with a lambda anomaly in the specific heat. Our data favor a kinetic glass description of the vortex melting transition, indicating that vortex topological disorder persists at fields and temperatures far below the peak effect in low-Tc superconductors.

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PETROVIC, Alexander et al. Real-Space Vortex Glass Imaging and the Vortex Phase Diagram of SnMo6S8. In: Physical review letters, 2009, vol. 103, n° 25. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.257001
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