Reply to ``Comment on `Study of the multicritical point in the vortex phase diagram (H||c) of a weakly pinned crystal of YBa2Cu3O7-δ' ''
Abstract
The details of the vortex phase diagram near the multicritical point in the YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) for H||c are reexamined in response to the Comment by Miu and in the light of newer revelations in the phase diagrams of Bi2Sr2CaCuO8 (BSCCO) and YBCO by N. Avraham et al. [Nature 411, 451 (2001)] and F. Bouquet et al. [ibid. 411, 448 (2001)], respectively. The connection between the notion of inverse melting and the shape of the order-disorder phase boundary in BSCCO and YBCO has been highlighted.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- March 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.096502
- Bibcode:
- 2002PhRvB..65i6502P
- Keywords:
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- 74.72.Bk;
- 74.60.Ge;
- 64.70.Dv;
- 74.25.Dw;
- Y-based cuprates;
- Solid-liquid transitions;
- Superconductivity phase diagrams