Abstract
By means of dc magnetization and the ac response of single crystals it is shown that at the dc irreversibility line the vortex system has no long-range order in the c direction. We find an energy dissipation peak at 7 Hz for interplane current that takes place at a temperature well below the irreversibility line. In this sense, the irreversibility line marks the temperature where quasi-two-dimensional vortices are depinned. The experimental data clearly show the different nature of two dissipation peaks in the susceptibility: one related to the interplane currents and the other associated with the intraplane ones.
- Received 22 March 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.7486
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