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Physical processes in high-temperature superconductors at the interface between the vortex-filled and meissner regions

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A technique has been proposed for investigating the magnetic microstate of high-temperature superconductors with a simultaneous analysis of the crystalline microstate of the sample with the aim of elucidating the specific features of the interaction between the crystalline and magnetic microstructures of polycrystalline high-temperature superconductors. Qualitatively new results have been obtained for samples with different microstructures. In particular, it has been found that the magnetic field dependences of the trapped magnetic flux density B tr(H 0) of polycrystalline and epitaxial films of high-temperature superconductors exhibit regular steps for both increasing and decreasing magnetic fields. The obtained results have demonstrated that, in strong magnetic fields, the studied epitaxial films, as well as bulk and thin-film polycrystalline high-temperature superconductors, “break down” into single domains, crystallites, and subcrystallites with different demagnetization factors. It has been revealed that the dependences B tr(H 0) also exhibit steps due to the simultaneous penetration of vortices into crystallites of approximately the same sizes and into more regularly arranged subcrystallites. As the quality of the samples increases, these steps become more pronounced because of the increase in the short-range order. The absence of steps in the dependence B tr(H 0) of the polycrystalline bulk samples clearly demonstrates the absence of long-range order in these samples. It is the vitreousness of the crystallographic microstructure of high-temperature superconductors which is responsible for the observed transformations in the vortex system. The similarity of the results obtained for samples with different microstructures indicates that the penetration (escape), distribution, and trapping of the magnetic flux in these samples occur through a universal mechanism. It has been found that the polycrystalline high-temperature superconductors are actually multi-step rather than two-step systems. It has been shown that the vitreousness of the microstructure of high-temperature superconductors and the presence of close-packed twin boundaries in samples lead to the penetration of a magnetic flux in the form of hypervortices into the sample and cause the formation of a superconducting glass state on a different physical basis as compared to the Ebner-Stroud model of a granulated glass.

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Original Russian Text © Kh.R. Rostami, 2013, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2013, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1677–1690.

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Rostami, K.R. Physical processes in high-temperature superconductors at the interface between the vortex-filled and meissner regions. Phys. Solid State 55, 1786–1801 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783413090278

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