Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1973 - 1976 (1988)Vortex Entanglement in High-Tc Superconductors
David R. Nelson Received 28 March 1988 New kinds of intermediate flux states should be accessible in high-Tc superconductors, in fields slightly above Hc1. Flux-line wandering leads to an entangled vortex state whose statistical mechanics is isomorphic to an interacting 2D Bose superfluid with cooperative ring exchanges. In sufficiently thin samples, this "braided flux" phase transforms into a liquid of disentangled rods. ©1988 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v60/p1973 See AlsoComment: Thomas Nattermann and Reinhard Lipowsky, Vortex Behavior in High-Tc Superconductors with Disorder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2508 (1988) [ Abstract | Previous article | Next article | Issue 19 ] |
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