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"Soft" Anharmonic Vortex Glass in Ferromagnetic Superconductors

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Ferromagnetic order in superconductors can induce a {\em spontaneous} vortex (SV) state. For external field H=0{\bf H}=0, rotational symmetry guarantees a vanishing tilt modulus of the SV solid, leading to drastically different behavior than that of a conventional, external-field-induced vortex solid. We show that quenched disorder and anharmonic effects lead to elastic moduli that are wavevector-dependent out to arbitrarily long length scales, and non-Hookean elasticity. The latter implies that for weak external fields HH, the magnetic induction scales {\em universally} like B(H)B(0)+cHαB(H)\sim B(0)+ c H^{\alpha}, with α0.72\alpha\approx 0.72. For weak disorder, we predict the SV solid is a topologically ordered vortex glass, in the ``columnar elastic glass'' universality class.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0103204,
  title  = {"Soft" Anharmonic Vortex Glass in Ferromagnetic Superconductors},
  author = {Leo Radzihovsky and A. M. Ettouhami and Karl Saunders and John Toner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0103204},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

minor corrections; version published in PRL

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