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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 74, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.104502
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The range of critical thermal fluctuations in classical bulk superconductors is extremely small and especially in low fields hardly experimentally accessible. With a new type of calorimeter we have been able to resolve a small lambda anomaly within a narrow temperature range around the H-c2 line. We show that the evolution of the anomaly as a function of magnetic field follows scaling laws expected in the presence of critical fluctuations. The lower onset of the fluctuation regime shows many characteristics of a continuous solid-to-liquid transition in the vortex matter. It can be driven into a first-order vortex melting transition by a small ac field which helps the vortex matter to reach equilibrium.
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