Smectic vortex phase in optimally doped YBa2Cu3O7 thin films

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Baily, S. A. [1 ,2 ]
Maiorov, B. [1 ,2 ]
Zhou, H. [1 ]
Balakirev, F. F. [2 ]
Jaime, M. [2 ]
Foltyn, S. R. [1 ]
Civale, L. [1 ]
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[1] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Superconduct Technol Ctr, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[2] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Natl High Magnet Field Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.027004
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Angular dependent resistivity measurements of optimally doped YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7) films in fields H pulsed to 50 T are presented. Up to the highest H, the vortex melting field H(m) increases and vortex motion is reduced for H aligned with the correlated pinning centers along the main crystalline axes, otherwise 3D anisotropic scaling describes the vortex dynamics. For H parallel to ab, the rapid increase in H(m) at low temperatures and a critical exponent analysis near H(m) confirm the presence of the liquid-crystalline smectic phase predicted for layered superconductors.
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