1997/12/31 by Seungoh Ryu, David Stroud · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.57.14476
Updated references. 46 pages including low quality 25 eps figures. Contact [email protected] or visit http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu:80/~ryu/ for better figures and additional movie files from simulations. To be published in Physical Review B1 01Jun98
We have numerically studied the statics and dynamics of a model three-dimensional vortex lattice at low magnetic fields. For the statics we use a frustrated 3D XY model on a stacked triangular lattice. We model the dynamics as a coupled network of overdamped resistively-shunted Josephson junctions with Langevin noise. At low fields, there is a weakly first-order phase transition, at which the vortex lattice melts into a line liquid. Phase coherence parallel to the field persists until a sharp crossover, conceivably a phase transition, near Tℓ > Tm which develops at the same temperature as an infinite vortex tangle. The calculated flux flow resistivity in various geometries near T=Tℓ closely resembles experiment. The local density of field induced vortices increases sharply near T_ℓ, corresponding to the experimentally observed magnetization jump. We discuss the nature of a possible transition or crossover at T_ℓ(B) which is distinct from flux lattice melting.