Role of anisotropy in the dissipative behavior of high-temperature superconductors
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 43 (4), 3756-3759
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.43.3756
Abstract
In a comparative study of the dissipative behavior of various classes of high- superconductors in large magnetic fields, we demonstrate that materials with a large electronic anisotropy, like the Bi and Tl compounds, have intrinsically smaller pinning energies than more isotropic materials. Consequently, the highly anisotropic materials exhibit thermally assisted dissipation down to temperatures far below . In spite of small pinning energies, large critical current densities can be observed in the critical-state regime at T<. In this regime irradiation damage produces large changes in , but only modest changes in the magnitude of the pinning energies as evidenced in the thermally activated regime. We introduce a general criterion, which denotes the temperature and magnetic-field regime in which superconductors can be applied.
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