Critical points in the Bragg glass phase of a weakly pinned crystal of Ca3Rh4Sn13 |
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Authors: | S Sarkar A D Thakur C V Tomy G Balakrishnan D McK Paul S Ramakrishnan A K Grover |
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Institution: | (1) DCMP&MS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 400 005 Mumbai, India;(2) Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 400 076 Mumbai, India;(3) Department of Physics, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL Coventry, UK |
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Abstract: | New experimental data are presented on the scan rate dependence of the magnetization hysteresis width ΔM(H) (∞ critical current densityJ
c(H)) in isothermalMH scans in a weakly pinned single crystal of Ca3Rh4Sn13, which displays second magnetization peak (SMP) anomaly as distinct from the peak effect (PE). We observe an interesting
modulation in the field dependence of a parameter which purports to measure the dynamical annealing of the disordered bundles
of vortices injected through the sample edges towards the destined equilibrium vortex state at a givenH. These data, in conjunction with the earlier observations made while studying the thermomagnetic history dependence inJ
c(H) in the tracing of the minor hysteresis loops, imply that the partially disordered state heals towards the more ordered state
between the peak field of the SMP anomaly and the onset field of the PE. The vortex phase diagram in the given crystal of
Ca3Rh4Sn13 has been updated in the context of the notion of the phase coexistence of the ordered and disordered regions between the
onset field of the SMP anomaly and the spinodal line located just prior to the irreversibility line. A multi-critical point
and a critical point in the (H,T) region of the Bragg glass phase have been marked in this phase diagram and the observed behavior is discussed in the light
of recent data on multi-critical point in the vortex phase diagram in a single crystal of Nb. |
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Keywords: | Second magnetization peak ramp rate dependence of hysteresis width peak effect order-disorder transition Ca3Rh4Sn13 multi-critical point critical point vortex phase diagram |
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