The effect of a magnetic field component parallel to the superconducting layers on longitudinal Josephson plasma oscillations in the layered high temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ is shown to depend on the thermodynamic state of the underlying vortex lattice. Whereas the parallel magnetic field component depresses the Josephson Plasma Resonance (JPR) frequency in the vortex solid phase, it may enhance it in the vortex liquid. There is a close correlation between the behavior of microwave absorption near the JPR frequency and the effectiveness of pancake vortex pinning, with the enhancement of the plasma resonance frequency occurring in the absence of pinning, at high temperature close to the vortex melting line. An interpretation is proposed in terms of the attraction between pancake vortices and Josephson vortices, apparently also present in the vortex liquid state.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0607604,
title = {In-plane field-induced vortex liquid correlations in underdoped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta},
author = {Panayotis Spathis and Marcin Konczykowski and Piotr Gierlowski and Ming Li and Peter H. Kes and Cornelis J. van der Beek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0607604},
year = {2009}
}