Publication: Vortex liquid entanglement in irradiated YBa_2Cu_3O_7 thin films
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2001-02-01
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Sefrioui, Zouhair
Arias, D.
León, C.
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American Physical Society
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Epitaxial YBa_2Cu_3O_7 thin films, grown by high-pressure de sputtering, an irradiated with He^(+) ions at 80 keV with doses between 10_(14) and 10_(15) cm^(-2). Irradiation reduces the critical temperature but it does not modify the carrier concentration. Angle- dependent resistivity is used to show that the mass anisotropy does not change upon irradiation. The melting transition in magnetic fields applied parallel to the c axis is analyzed by I-V critical scaling, and all irradiated and nonirradiated samples show a three- dimensional vortex glass transition with the same critical exponents. The dissipation in the liquid state is analyzed in terms of the activation energy of the magnetoresistance in a perpendicular magnetic field. While as-grown samples show an activation energy depending as 1/H on the applied magnetic field, irradiated samples show a dependence as 1/H^(0.5), characteristic of plastic deformation of vortices. This is discussed in terms of the point disorder introduced by ion irradiation.
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©2001 The American Physical Society.
Financial support from CICYT Grant Nos. MAT94-0604, MAT97-0675, and MAT99-1706E is acknowledged. Z.S. thanks AECI for financial support.