Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• SAFAR, H
• GAMMEL, P. L
• HUSE, D. A
• BISHOP, D. J
• LEE, W. C
• GIAPINTZAKIS, J
• GINSBERG, D. M

Titel

Experimental evidence for a multicritical point in the magnetic phase diagram for the mixed state of clean, untwinned YBa2Cu3O7

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 1993-06, Vol.70 (24), p.3800-3803

Ort / Verlag

Ridge, NY: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We report on transport measurements in fields up to 16 T in clean, untwinned single crystals of YBa2Cu3O7 which indicate that there is a critical end point for first-order melting in the H-T phase diagram in the mixed state of that system. Our data show that at a well defined value of the magnetic field, the phase boundary sharply changes slope where the first-order melting transition gives way to a second-order vortex-glass transition. These data suggest that the recently observed first-order transition is robust in the presence of a finite amount of disorder and that the vortex-glass transition only occurs for disorder beyond a certain critical amount. (Author)