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Magnetization Relaxation via Quantum and Classical Vortex Motion in a Bose Glass Superconductor

Condensed Matter 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

I show that in Bose Glass superconductor with high jcj_c and at low TT the magnetization relaxation (S), dominated by quantum tunneling, is jc\propto{\sqrt j_c}, which crosses over to the conventional classical rate T/jc\propto T/j_c at higher TT and lower jcj_c, with the crossover Tjc3/2T^*\sim j_c^{3/2}. I argue that due to interactions between flux lines there exist three relaxation regimes, depending on whether B<BϕB<B_\phi, BBϕB\approx B_\phi, B>BϕB>B_\phi, corresponding to Strongly-pinned Bose Glass (SBG) with large jc2j_{c2}, Mott Insulator (MI) with vanishing S, and Weakly-pinned Bose Glass (WBG) characterized by small jc1j_{c1}. I discuss the effects of interactions on jcj_c and focus attention on the recent experiment which is consistently described by the theory.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9504031,
  title  = {Magnetization Relaxation via Quantum and Classical Vortex Motion in a Bose Glass Superconductor},
  author = {Leo Radzihovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9504031},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, self-unpacking uuencoded compressed postscript file with figures already inside text; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.(1995)