Peak Effect of Jc and Nonlinear EJ Characteristies of HighTc Superconductors.pdfVIP

Peak Effect of Jc and Nonlinear E − J Characteristies of High-Tc Superconductors ∗ W.Wang, Z.Qi, H.Y.Xu, F.R.Wang, C.Y.Li and D.L.Yin∗ Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China The critical current density Jc in high-Tc superconductors (HTS) often shows a maximum at field far above the self-field. We study this peak effect (PE) with the nonlinear I − V response of type-II 1 superconductors and find analytical equation of Jc in the dependence of field and temperature. This 0 equation is compared with some experimental data of R-Ba-Cu-O single crystals with fair agreement. 0 2 l u PACS: 74.60.Jg, 74.60.Ge, 74.62.b, 74.72.-h J 3 The vortex matter becomes mobile when the driv- as ] ing current density exceeds some critical value Jc. In n high-Tc superconductor RBa Cu O (R=Y, Gd, Tm U (J) −→ U (Jp ≡ J − E (J)/ρf ) (2) 2 3 7−δ o and Nd) Jc often shows a maximum at applied mag- c- netic fields far above the self-field. This peak effect is The corresponding modified materials equation. (1) r of great interest from both fundamental amd technolog- leads to a common nonlinear form as p ical aspects and studied extensively [1]- [6]. Scaling be- u p havior in the form J (B, T )/J (B , T ) = f (B/B ) with y = x exp[−γ (1 + y − x) ] (3) s c c p p t. peak field Bp ha