Absence of a True Vortex-Glass Phase above the Bragg Glass Transition Line in Bi-2212

Abstract

In magnetic measurements on Bi${}_2$Sr${}_2$CaCu${}_2$O${}_{8+\delta }$ (Bi-2212) single crystals, a general peak with a dynamical feature on both $S-H$ and $S-T$ curves was found with S the magnetic relaxation rate. At higher fields, the characteristic exponent $\mu$ becomes negative, together with the positive curvature of $logE$ vs. $logj$ and the scaling based on the 2D vortex glass theory or plastic creep theory, we conclude that the vortex motion above the second peak is plastic when $j\to 0$ and there is no vortex glass phase at finite temperatures in Bi-2212. The peak of S is then explained as the crossover between different meta-stable vortex states.

arXiv comment10 pages, 5 figures, To appear in Physica C

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