Amorphous vortex glass phase in strongly disordered superconductors.

نویسنده

  • Jack Lidmar
چکیده

We introduce a model describing vortices in strongly disordered three-dimensional superconductors. The model focuses on the topological defects, i.e., dislocation lines, in an elastic description of the vortex lattice. The model is studied using Monte Carlo simulations, revealing a glass phase at low temperatures, separated by a continuous phase transition to the high temperature resistive vortex liquid phase. The critical exponents nu approximately 1.3 and eta approximately -0.4 characterizing the transition are obtained from finite size scaling.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 91 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003