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Percolation Transition in the Heterogeneous Vortex State of NbSe 2

2005; American Physical Society; Volume: 95; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.95.057004

1092-0145

Ozgur Dogru, Eva Y. Andrei, M. J. Higgins, S. Bhattacharya,

Quantum and electron transport phenomena

A percolation transition in the vortex state of a superconducting 2H-NbSe2 crystal is observed in the regime where vortices form a heterogeneous phase consisting of ordered and disordered domains. The transition is signaled by a sharp increase in critical current that occurs when the volume fraction of disordered domains, obtained from pulsed measurements of the current-voltage characteristics, reaches the value Pc= 0.26. Measurements on different vortex states show that while the temperature of the transition depends on history and measurement speed, the value of Pc and the critical exponent characterizing the approach to it, r =1.97 $\pm$ 0.66, are universal.