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Published February 2, 1998 | Published
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Vortex pinning and stability in the low field, superconducting phases of UPt_3

Abstract

We use an array of miniature Hall probe magnetometers to probe the entry and flow of flux in a single crystal torus or the heavy fermion superconductor UPt_3. Local measurements over the hole are exquisitely sensitive to vortex motion anywhere in the torus, and they permit us to detect avalanches restricted to and with a sharp onset in the lower temperature superconducting phase. Computer simulations support a mechanism dependent upon the degenerate nature of the superconducting order parameter.

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© 1998 The American Physical Society. Received 25 September 1997. We are grateful to D. G. Hinks for providing the crystals of UPt3. The work at the University of Chicago was supported by NSF No. DMR95-07873. E. S. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (DMR91-20000) through the Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity.

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