Destruction by fluctuations of superconducting long-range order in the Abrikosov flux lattice
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 39 (1), 136-139
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.39.136
Abstract
Previous studies have demonstrated that thermal fluctuations destroy superconducting long-range order within the mixed state of a type-II superconductor. These fluctuations are shown to be incompressible shear motions of the flux lines forming the flux lattice. Despite the absence of superconducting order, the existence of a flux lattice phase is indicated by a renormalization-group analysis. The Lindemann melting criterion suggests that the lattice might melt when (1-T/) is of order .
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