ANTI-MEISSNER EFFECT AND LOW-FIELD MAGNETIC-RELAXATION IN SINTERED BI-2212

• A detailed study of the low field magnetic properties of some sintered Bi-2212 samples has been performed. For sufficiently low applied magnetic fields, typically for fields H < 0.2 Oe, the field-cooled magnetisation becomes positive at some temperature below T(C) (anti-Meissner effect), contrary to the usual Meissner effect. The field dependence of this effect is comparable to the predicted behaviour for a system in an orbital glass state. Additionally, the relaxation of the zero-field-cooled magnetisation displays an unexpected field dependence, the relaxation rate S = partial-derivative M/partial-derivative log(t) increases as H(alpha) with alpha almost-equal-to 0.9 at very low fields. In contrast to the behaviour found in sintered YBCO, this result is not accounted for in conventional flux creep models, where the prediction is alpha greater-than-or-equal-to 2.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

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