Markus Muller 1, 2, Denis A. Gorokhov 1, 3, Gianni Blatter 1
Physical Review B 64 (2001) 134523
We analyze the competition between thermal fluctuations and pinning of vortices in bulk type II superconductors subject to point-like disorder and derive an expression for the temperature dependence of the pinning length L_c(T) which separates different types of single vortex wandering. Given a disorder potential with a basic scale \xi and a correlator K_0(u) \sim K_0 (u/xi)^{-\beta} ln^alpha (u/xi) we determine the dependence of L_c(T) on the correlator range: correlators with \beta > 2 (short-range) and \beta <2 (long-range) lead to the known results L_c(T) \sim L_c(0) exp[C T^3] and L_c(T) \sim L_c(0) (C T)^{(4+beta)/(2-beta)}, respectively. Using functional renormalization group we show that for \beta =2 the result takes the interpolating form L_c(T) \sim L_c(0) exp[C T^{3/(2+alpha)}]. Pinning of vortices in bulk type II superconductors involves a long-range correlator with \beta=2, \alpha=1 on intermediate scales \xi
- 1. Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg,
ETH-Hönggerberg - 2. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS),
CNRS : UMR8626 – Université Paris XI – Paris Sud - 3. Department of Physics,
University of Harvard