Freezing transition of the vortex liquid in a layered superconductor

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2001
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Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
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0921-4534
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Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
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351
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2
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169 - 174
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English
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The self-consistent theory of Singwi, Tosi, Land, and Sjolander is used to describe the liquid-solid phase in a layered superconductor in the limit of weak interplane correlation effects as would be applicable to BSCCO materials. We calculate the local-field corrections, static structure factor, and pair correlation function and compare our results with other methods. The Hansen-Verlet criterion is used to estimate the freezing temperature of the vortex system.

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