Establishment of a stable vortex state in the peak effect region in a weakly pinned superconductor CeRu_2

A. A. Tulapurkar, D. Heidarian, S. Sarkar +7

We present magnetization data on a weakly pinned CeRu_2 single crystal showing the existence of a stable state of the vortex lattice in the peak effect region. The stable state is…