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Elasticity and melting of vortex crystals in anisotropic superconductors: Beyond the continuum regime.
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The elastic moduli of vortex crystals in anisotropic superconductors are frequently involved in the investigation of their phase diagram and transport properties. We provide a detailed analysis of the harmonic eigenvalues (normal modes) of the vortex lattice for general values of the magnetic field strength, going beyond the elastic continuum regime. The detailed behavior of these wave-vector-dependent eigenvalues within the Brillouin zone (BZ), is compared with several frequently used approximations that we also recalculate. Throughout the BZ, transverse modes are less costly than their longitudinal counterparts, and there is an angular dependence which becomes more marked close to the zone boundary. Based on these results, we propose an analytic correction to the nonlocal continuum formulas which fits quite well the numerical behavior of the eigenvalues in the London regime. We use this approximate expression to calculate thermal fluctuations and the full melting line (according to Lindeman's criterion) for various values of the anisotropy parameter.
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MIGUEL LÓPEZ, María del Carmen and KARDAR, M. Elasticity and melting of vortex crystals in anisotropic superconductors: Beyond the continuum regime. Physical Review B. 2000. Vol. 62, num. 9, pags. 5942-5956. ISSN 0163-1829. [consulted: 16 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/10870