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Nature of Decoupling in the Mixed Phase of Extremely Type-II Layered Superconductors

J. P. Rodriguez

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9906199

Abstract

The uniformly frustrated layered XY model is analyzed in its Villain form. A decouple pancake vortex liquid phase is identified. It is bounded by both first-order and second-order decoupling lines in the magnetic field versus temperature plane. These transitions, respectively, can account for the flux-lattice melting and for the flux-lattice depinning observed in the mixed phase of clean high-temperature superconductors.

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