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Vortex matter freezing in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8}$ samples with a very dense distribution of columnar defects

Superconductivity 2016-02-10 v1

Abstract

We show that the dynamical freezing of vortex structures nucleated at diluted densities in Bi2_{2}Sr2_{2}CaCu2_{2}O8_{8} samples with a dense distribution of columnar defects, B102BΦB \sim 10^{-2} B_{\Phi} with BΦ=5B_{\Phi}=5\,kG, results in configurations with liquid-like correlations. We propose a freezing model considering a relaxation dynamics dominated by double-kink excitations driven by the local stresses obtained directly from experimental images. With this model we estimate the relaxation barrier and the freezing temperature. We argue that the low-field frozen vortex structures nucleated in a dense distribution of columnar defects thus correspond to an out-of-equilibrium non-entangled liquid with strongly reduced mobility rather than to a snapshot of a metastable state with divergent activation barriers as for instance expected for the Bose-glass phase at equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.1602.02784,
  title  = {Vortex matter freezing in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8}$ samples with a very dense distribution of columnar defects},
  author = {N. R. Cejas Bolecek and A. B. Kolton and M. Konczykowski and H. Pastoriza and D. Domínguez and Y. Fasano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02784},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures