We investigate the order-disorder transition line from a Bragg glass to an amorphous vortex
glass in the H− T phase diagram of three-dimensional type-II superconductors taking into …

We discuss the destruction of vortex lattice order in type-II superconductors by random point
pinning and thermal fluctuations based on Lindemann criteria. The location of the melting …

The vortex-lattice melting line in three-dimensional type-II superconductors with pinning is
derived by equating the free energies of the vortex system in the solid and liquid phases. We …

The phase diagram for the vortex states of high-T c superconductors with point defects in the
B→∥ c axis is drawn by large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. The vortex slush (VS) phase …

It is shown that interaction of the flux-line lattice with randomly arranged pinning centers
should destroy the long-range positional order in the lattice, but not the long-range …

Destruction of the vortex lattice by random point pinning is considered as a mechanism of
the “second peak” transition observed experimentally in weakly coupled layered high …

The stability of a vortex glass phase with quasi-long-range positional order is examined for a
disordered layered superconductor. The role of topological defects is investigated using a …

Point-like pinnings inevitably exist in real and bulk type II superconductors and, even in
clean limit, need to be taken into account in describing the vortex states right at and below …

The phase transition temperature of a layered-lattice superconductor (Josephson-junction
array) is shown to have a finite limit T c 0 for arbitrarily small interlayer coupling. T c 0 is a …

We review the prediction, made in a previous work [T. Giamarchi and P. Le Doussal, Phys.
Rev. B 52, 1242 (1995)], that the phase diagram of type-II superconductors consists of a …