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'Inverse' melting of a vortex lattice
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Inverse melting is the process in which a crystal reversibly transforms into a liquid or amorphous phase when its temperature is decreased. Such a process is considered to be very rare, and the search for it is often hampered by the formation of non-equilibrium states or intermediate phases. Here we report the discovery of first-order inverse melting of the lattice formed by magnetic flux lines in a high-temperature superconductor. At low temperatures, disorder in the material pins the vortices, preventing the observation of their equilibrium properties and therefore the determination of whether a phase transition occurs. But by using a technique to ‘dither’ the vortices, we were able to equilibrate the lattice, which enabled us to obtain direct thermodynamic evidence of inverse melting of the ordered lattice into a disordered vortex phase as the temperature is decreased. The ordered lattice has larger entropy than the low-temperature disordered phase. The mechanism of the first-order phase transition changes gradually from thermally induced melting at high temperatures to a disorder-induced transition at low temperatures.
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- Avraham, N., Khaykovich, B., Myasoedov, Y., Rappaport, M., Shtrikman, H., Feldman, D. E., Tamegai, T., Kes, P. H., Li, M., Konczykowski, M., van der Beek, K., & Zeldov, E.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2001-05
- Volume
- 411
- Issue
- 6836
- Pages
- 451-454
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1971962094
- Cited by
- 268
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 20.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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