Observations of the configuration of the high-field vortex lattice in YBa2Cu3O7: Dependence upon temperature and angle of applied field

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  White, J S ^a   Brown, S P ^a   Forgan, E M ^a   Laver, M ^a   Bowell, C J ^a   Lycett, R J ^a   Charalambous, D ^b   Hinkov, V ^c   Erb, A ^d   Kohlbrecher, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d WALTHER MEISSNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 57349109952     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.174513     Document Type: Article

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58. In anisotropic London theory, the degeneracy that exists in VL orientations is broken when the field is applied at an angle to a principal crystal axis, e.g., the c axis. In the uniaxial case, anisotropic London theory predicts (Ref.) that the vortex nearest-neighbor direction should lie along the direction of shortest penetration depth, which in this case would be the horizontal direction because the rotation is about the vertical axis. The electromagnetic interaction that favors this orientation arises from the coupling (caused by the rotation) of the effective mass in the horizontal direction to the effective mass along the c axis. In the present case, the small rotation of 10° makes a negligible change in the penetration depth in the horizontal direction and hence the distortion of the VL from regular hexagonal is still dominated by the basal-plane anisotropy. Nevertheless, the coupling breaks the degeneracy of VL orientations and therefore would give rise to a preferential orientation independent of the basal-plane anisotropy.