Abstract
The magnetoresistance of two single crystals of Bi 2Sr 2CaCu 2O y was investigated in magnetic fields up to 1.6T with a direction angle, θ, between 0° and 180° with respect to the c-axis. The resistivity of the crystals was analyzed in terms of the interpolative expression 1/ϱ=1/ϱ FF+1/ϱ TAFF, where ϱ FF is the flux flow resistivity and ϱ TAFF is given by the thermally activated flux flow (TAFF) expression, ϱ TAFF =2 πϱ FF (U/T)exp(-U/T) where T is the temperature and U the activation energy. Results indicated that H∝ H -α, where α ≈ 1 3 , for fields applied both perpendicular and parallel to the c=axis. The angular dependenc e U, was fit with a form of the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau expression U ∝( cos 2 θ + ϵ sin 2 θ) − ga 2 , where ϵ is the inverse of the mass anisotropy factor. Values of the mass anisotropy factor obtained for the two crystals were 700 and 300, respectively, and were confirmed by measuring the torque anisotropy. These results demonstrate that the activation barriers as obtained from an interpolative analysis of the TAFF and flux flow resistivity reflect the anisotropic superconducting nature of these materials.
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