Measuring the Penetration Depth Anisotropy in MgB$_2$ using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
arXiv:cond-mat/0511376 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.73.012513
Abstract
Using small-angle neutron scattering we have measured the misalignment between an applied field of 4 kOe and the flux-line lattice in MgB$_2$, as the field is rotated away from the c axis by an angle $θ$. The measurements, performed at 4.9 K, showed the vortices canting towards the c axis for all field orientations. Using a two-band/two-gap model to calculate the magnetization we are able to fit our results yielding a penetration depth anisotropy, $\glam = 1.1 \pm 0.1$.
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