Correlation Length of Quasiperiodic Vortex Lattices
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- 14 July 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 97 (2) , 027002
Abstract
We investigated vortex-lattice dynamics in superconducting Nb thin films with different quasiperiodic arrays of magnetic pinning centers. The mixed-state magnetoresistance exhibits minima for well-defined applied fields, related to matching effects between the vortex lattice and those arrays. The results show that critical matching can originate at a local scale. For fractal arrays, the vortex-lattice correlation length is longer and the minima are deeper, close to those of periodic arrays.Keywords
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