LOSS OF INTERPLANE CORRELATION IN BI2SR2CACU2O8 SINGLE-CRYSTALS

By means of dc magnetization and the ac response of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 sing le crystals it is shown that at the dc irreversibility line the vortex system has no long-range order in the c direction. We find an energy dissipation peak at 7 Hz for interplane current that takes place at a temperature well below the irreversibility line. In this sense, the ir reversibility line marks the temperature where quasi-two dimensional v ortices are depinned. The experimental data clearly show the different nature of two dissipation peaks in the susceptibility: one related to the interplane currents and the other associated with the intraplane ones.