NMR AND VORTEX LATTICE MELTING IN YBA2CU3O7

Citation
Ch. Recchia et al., NMR AND VORTEX LATTICE MELTING IN YBA2CU3O7, Physical review letters, 78(18), 1997, pp. 3543-3546
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
78
Issue
18
Year of publication
1997
Pages
3543 - 3546
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)78:18<3543:NAVLMI>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We report Y-89 and O-17 NMR (9 T) echo decays for YBa2Cu3O7 and correc t for contributions from dipolar coupling Cu-63,Cu-65 in, order to iso late effects of vortex dynamics. We confirm vortex localization in the solid state with rms displacements consistent with Langevin dynamical theory, but with motional dynamics at time scales (10-100 mu s) some similar to 10(6) times slower than predicted. Vortex migration over lo nger time scales is restricted to distances less than 1/100 of an inte rvortex spacing over times as long as 100 ms, in contrast with the rap id long range diffusion occurring in the liquid state.