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Ambivalence of the anisotropy of the vortex lattice in an anisotropic type-II superconductor

I. L. Landau, A. V. Sologubenko, H. R. Ott

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0306094

Abstract

We present a geometry-based discussion of possible vortex configurations in the mixed state of anisotropic type-II superconductors. It is shown that, if energy considerations assign six nearest neighbors to each vortex, two distinct modifications of the vortex lattice are possible. It is expected that certain conditions lead to a first order phase transition from one modification of the vortex lattice to the other upon varying the external magnetic field.

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