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The European Physical Journal B
ISSN: 1434-6028 (printed version)
ISSN: 1434-6036 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 3 Issue 2 (1998) pp 143-148
Magnetothermal instabilities in an organic superconductor
D. Monier, L. Fruchter (a)
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Received: 11 December 1997 / Revised: 15 January 1998 / Accepted: 31 March 1998
Abstract: We have studied the occurrence of magnetothermal instabilities in a $\rm \kappa{-}(BEDT{-}TTF)_2Cu[N(CN)_2]Br$ single crystal during field sweep magnetization experiments, equivalent to short time relaxation studies. We find instability behaviour in good agreement with a recent model by Mints, for a non-linear E(J) characteristic. In particular, we find that a decrease of the dynamic relaxation rate, characterizing the effective activation energy, precedes the unstable regime. We point out formal analogies between such instabilities and the general predictions for flux avalanches.
PACS. 74.60.Ge Flux pinning, flux creep, and flux-line lattice dynamics - 74.70.Kn Organic superconductors
(a) email: fruchter@lps.u-psud.fr
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Online publication: July 9, 1998
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