Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.224503
Keywords
barium compounds; flux pinning; high-temperature superconductors; lithium; magnetic field effects; nuclear magnetic resonance; silver; superconducting thin films; superconducting transition temperature; superfluidity; twin boundaries; twinning; yttrium compounds
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- NSERC
- CIFAR
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beta-detected NMR (beta-NMR) has been used to study vortex lattice disorder near the surface of the high-T-C superconductor YBa2Cu3O7-delta (YBCO). The magnetic-field distribution from the vortex lattice was detected by implanting a low-energy beam of highly polarized Li-8(+) into a thin overlayer of silver on optimally doped, twinned, and detwinned YBCO samples. The resonance in Ag broadens significantly below the transition temperature T-C as expected from the emerging field lines of the vortex lattice in YBCO. However, the lineshape is more symmetric and the dependence on the applied magnetic field is much weaker than expected from an ideal vortex lattice, indicating that the vortex density varies across the face of the sample, likely due to pinning at twin boundaries. At low temperatures the broadening from such disorder does not scale with the superfluid density.
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