Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9841709 | Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The magnetic torque measurements were performed on two MgB2 single crystals with the different values of upper critical fields Hc2 (3.7Â T and 3.1Â T at 4.2Â K). At low temperatures, the irreversible torque-vs-field curves Ï(H) in the both samples show the peak effect, accompanied by the field-history dependence, close to Hc2 for all the field directions measured. With increasing temperature, the peak in Ï(H) becomes less pronounced, and disappears around TÂ =Â 27Â K. In the sample with smaller Hc2, Ï(H) curves display diamagnetic steps at the higher temperatures. On the other hand, in the sample with larger Hc2, such a step is not observed. Our results suggest that the order-disorder transition around the peak transforms to the first-order melting transition, which is very sensitive to the degree of disorder.
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Authors
T. Nojima, H. Nagano, H. Maruyama, Y. Watanabe, A. Ochiai, H. Aoki,