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Evidence for LineLike Vortex Liquid Phase in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 Probed by the Josephson Plasma Resonance

V. K. Thorsmølle, R. D. Averitt, M. P. Maley, M. F. Hundley, A. E. Koshelev, L. N. Bulaevskii, A. J. Taylor

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0111041

Abstract

We measured the Josephson plasma resonance (JPR) in optimally doped Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8+δ thin films using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy in transmission. The temperature and magnetic field dependence of the JPR frequency shows that the c-axis correlations of pancake vortices remain intact at the transition from the vortex solid to the liquid phase. In this respect Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8+δ films, withanisotropy parameter γ≈ 150, are similar to the less anisotropic YBa2Cu3O7-δ (γ≈ 8) rather than to the most anisotropic Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals γ≥ 500).

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