Order and creep in flux lattices and charge density wave pinned by planar defects.
The influence of randomly distributed point impurities and planar defects on the order and transport in type-II superconductors and related systems is considered theoretical. For random planar defects of identical orientation, the flux line lattice exhibits a new glassy phase with diverging shear and tilt modulus, a transverse Meissner effect, large sample to sample fluctuations of the susceptibility, and an exponential decay of translational long range order. The flux creep resistivity for currents J parallel to the defects is p(J) to approximately exp-(J0/J)mu with mu = 3/2. Strong disorder enforces an array of dislocations to relax shear
Petković
Aleksandra
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Institutfiir Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Köln, Germany.
Nattermann
Thomas
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