Field-angle dependent vortex lattice phase diagram in MgB2
arXiv:2101.04191 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.094516
Abstract
Using small-angle neutron scattering we have studied the superconducting vortex lattice (VL) phase diagram in MgB2 as the applied magnetic field is rotated away from the c axis and towards the basal plane. The field rotation gradually suppresses the intermediate VL phase which exists between end states aligned with two high symmetry directions in the hexagonal basal plane for H || c. Above a critical angle, the intermediate state disappears, and the previously continuous transition becomes discontinuous. The evolution towards the discontinuous transition can be parameterized by a vanishing twelvefold anisotropy term in the VL free energy.
arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures; [v2]: minor revisions to text and figures; [v3] typos fixed, journal reference added
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