"Soft" Anharmonic Vortex Glass in Ferromagnetic Superconductors
Abstract
Ferromagnetic order in superconductors can induce a {\em spontaneous} vortex (SV) state. For external field , 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 , the magnetic induction scales {\em universally} like , with . For weak disorder, we predict the SV solid is a topologically ordered vortex glass, in the ``columnar elastic glass'' universality class.
Cite
@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