Functional behaviour of the anomalous magnetic relaxation observed in melt-textured YBCO samples showing the paramagnetic Meissner effect

• Main Authors: Teixeira Dias, Fábio, Vieira, Valdemar das Neves, Garcia, E.L, Wolff-Fabris, Frederik, Kampert, Erik, Paiva Gouvêa, Cristol de, Schaf, Jacob, Obradors Berenguer, Xavier, Puig, Teresa, Roa Rovira, Joan Josep
• Format: Publication
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Enginyeria dels materials; High temperature superconductivity; Itri; Magnetic flux dynamics; Magnetic relaxation; Paramagnetic Meissner effect; Superconductivitat a altes temperatures; Yttrium compounds; Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
• ISSN: 0921-4534
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physc.2016.09.001

We have studied the functional behavior of the field-cooled (FC) magnetic relaxation observed in melt- textured YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7- d(Y123) samples with 30 wt% of Y 2 Ba 1 Cu 1 O 5 (Y211) phase, in order to investigate anomalous paramagnetic moments observed during the experiments. FC magnetic relaxation experiments were performed under controlled conditions, such as cooling rate and temperature. Magnetic fields up to 5T were applied parallel to the ab plane and along the c-axis. Our results are associated with the para- magnetic Meissner effect (PME), characterized by positive moments during FC experiments, and related to the magnetic flux compression into the samples. After different attempts our experimental data could be adequately fitted by an exponential decay function with different relaxation times. We discuss our results suggesting the existence of different and preferential flux dynamics governing the anomalous FC paramagnetic relaxation in different time intervals. This work is one of the first attempts to interpret this controversial effect in a simple analysis of the pinning mechanisms and flux dynamics acting during the time evolution of the magnetic moment. However, the results may be useful to develop models to explain this interesting and still misunderstood feature of the paramagnetic Meissner effect.
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