Metastability and Glassy Behavior of a Driven Flux-Line Lattice
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v2
Abstract
Strong metastability and history dependence are observed in DC and pulsed transport studies of flux-line lattices in 2H-, leading to the identification of two distinct states of the lattice with different spatial ordering. The metastability is most pronounced upon crossing a transition line marked by a large jump in the critical current (the peak effect). Current induced annealing of the metastable state towards the stable state is observed with a strongly current dependent annealing time, which diverges as a threshold current is approached from above.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9606074,
title = {Metastability and Glassy Behavior of a Driven Flux-Line Lattice},
author = {W. Henderson and E. Y. Andrei and M. J. Higgins and S. Bhattacharya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9606074},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 Pages, ReVTeX, epsf, 4 postscript figures, Some minor revisions from original, Accepted by PRL