Published November 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

Forced Entanglement vs Anisotropic Dissipation in a Vortex Line Liquid

  • 1. IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607 (United States)
  • 3. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)

Description

We present evidence for forced topological entanglement of line-like vortices in the liquid regime of YBa2Cu 3O7-δ with columnar defects. By splaying the defects within a fixed plane (in-fan) we create a c- axis phase coherent vortex (string) structure which correlates with anisotropic dissipation. The high-field vortex motion is open-quotes easyclose quotes in fan and open-quotes hardclose quotes across fan in crystals emdash a signature of forced entanglement by a small angle splay. The high-field anisotropy is surprisingly reversed in thin films, where forced entanglement is absent. copyright 1997 The American Physical Society

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
21
Journal Page Range
p. 4258-4261.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO