On the anomalous pinning properties of the C15 Laves phase superconductor CeRu<sub>2</sub>
Sujeet Chaudhary; S B Roy; P Chaddah; L E DeLong
Журнал:
Superconductor Science and Technology
Дата:
1999-05-01
Аннотация:
We report the anomalous field (H) dependence of pinning force density F<sub>P</sub> as deduced from our magnetization measurements on the single-crystal and polycrystalline samples of CeRu<sub>2</sub>. It is shown that, contrary to a single maximum in other hard type II superconductors, CeRu<sub>2</sub> samples exhibit two distinct peak features in their F<sub>P</sub>-H plots. Our results show that the scaling of F<sub>P</sub> with the applied magnetic field at different temperatures cannot be described by the conventional Kramer model based on crossover from a line-breaking regime to a flux-line lattice shearing regime.
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