A New Phenomenology for the Disordered Mixed Phase
Superconductivity
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
A universal phase diagram for type-II superconductors with weak point pinning disorder is proposed. In this phase diagram, two thermodynamic phase transitions generically separate a ``Bragg glass'' from the disordered liquid. Translational correlations in the intervening ``multi-domain glass'' phase are argued to exhibit a significant degree of short-range order. This phase diagram differs significantly from the currently accepted one but provides a more accurate description of experimental data on high and low-T materials, simulations and current theoretical understanding.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0102168,
title = {A New Phenomenology for the Disordered Mixed Phase},
author = {Gautam I. Menon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0102168},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages including 2 postscript figures, minor changes in published version