Short time study of the fishtail effect in Ba0.6K0.4BiO3 single crystals

W. Harneit, T. Klein, C. Escribe-Filippini, H. Rakoto, J. M. Broto, A. Sulpice, R. Buder, J. Marcus, W. Schmidbauer

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Abstract

A magnetization study using three techniques with different time scales down to 10-4 s has been performed on single crystals of the three-dimensional high-Tc superconductor Ba0.6K0.4BiO3. A fishtail effect (second peak in M(B)) is observed in a large temperature range down to the shortest time scale. At high temperature (T = 0.74 Tc) the peak is still visible for the shortest time scale but disappears with increasing waiting time showing that it is not related to flux creep phenomena. The origin of the fishtail effect in high-Tc superconductors is discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)270-278
Number of pages9
JournalPhysica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
Volume267
Issue number3-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Aug 1996
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Collective pinning
  • Delta-t
  • Fishtail effect
  • Oxide superconductors
  • Pinning

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