2005/12/31 by J. P. Rodriguez
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.73.214520
published as Phys. Rev. B 73, 214520 (2006) · 13 pgs., 1 table, published version
openalex publication_date 2006/06/22 · arxiv created 2006/06/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
How the vortex lattice orders at long range in a layered superconductor with weak point pinning centers is studied through a duality analysis of the corresponding frustrated XY model. Vortex-glass order emerges out of the vortex liquid across a macroscopic number of weakly coupled layers in a perpendicular magnetic field as the system cools down. Further, the naive magnetic-field scale determined by the Josephson coupling between adjacent layers is found to serve as an upper bound for the stability of any possible conventional vortex lattice phase at low temperature in the extreme type-II limit.