Peak Effect Anomalies

Driven Disordered Polymorphic Solids: Phases and Phase Transitions, Dynamical Coexistence and Peak Effect Anomalies
Ankush Sengupta, Surajit Sengupta, Gautam I. Menon
cond-mat/0910.4229

Flux-line Motion in Disordered Environments

Driven Disordered Periodic Media with an Underlying Structural Phase Transition
Ankush Sengupta, Surajit Sengupta, Gautam I. Menon
Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm), 75, 180201(R) (2007)
cond-mat/0609422
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Non-equilibrium States of Driven Disordered Polymorphic Solids
Ankush Sengupta, Surajit Sengupta and Gautam I. Menon
Physica A, 384, 69 (2007)

Phase behaviour of a disordered type-II superconductor

Phase Behaviour of Type-II Superconductors with Quenched Point Pinning Disorder: A Phenomenological Proposal
Gautam I. Menon
Phys. Rev. B, 65, 104527 (2002)
cond-mat/0103013
A New Phenomenology for the Disordered Mixed Phase
Gautam I. Menon
Modern Physics Letters B, 15, 1023 (2001)
cond-mat/0102168
Disordered Type-II superconductors: A Universal Phase Diagram for Low-Tc Systems
S.S. Banerjee, T.V. Chandrasekhara Rao, A.K. Grover, M.J. Higgins, Gautam I. Menon, P.K. Mishra, D. Pal, S. Ramakrishnan, G. Ravikumar, V.C. Sahni, S. Sarkar and C.V. Tomy
Physica C, 355/1-2, 39, (2001)
cond-mat/0007451

Muon spin rotation in type-II superconductors

Muon-spin rotation in the mixed phase of high-T_c superconductors: Thermal Fluctuations and disorder effects
Gautam I. Menon, Chandan Dasgupta and T.V. Ramakrishnan,
Phys. Rev. B, 60, 7607, (1999)
cond-mat/9910382

Direct Observation of the Flux-line Glass Phase in a Type-II Superconductor
U.K. Divakar, A.J. Drew, S.L. Lee, R. Gilardi, J. Mesot, F.Y. Ogrin, D. Charlambous, E.M. Forgan, Gautam I. Menon, N. Momono, M. Oda and C. Dewhurst
Phys. Rev Lett, 92, 237004, [2004]
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Combined neutron scattering and muon-spin rotation investigations of the Abrikosov state of high-temperature superconductors
J. Mesot, J. Chang, J. Kohlbrecher, R. Gilardi, A.J. Drew, U. Divakar, D.O.G. Heron, S.J. Lister, S. L. Lee, S.P. Brown, D. Charalambous, E.M. Forgan, E. M, F.Y. Ogrin, G. I. Menon, C.D. Dewhurst, R. Cubitt, C. Baines, N. Momono, M. Oda, T. Uefuji and K. Yamada

Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Physics and Nanoengineering
Ed. Ivan Bozovic and Davor Pavuna
Proceedings of the SPIE, 5932, 350, [2005]

Muons as local probes of three-body correlations in the mixed state of type-II superconductors
G.I. Menon, A.J. Drew,A, U.K. Divakar, S.L.Lee, R. Gilardi J. Mesot, F.Y. Ogrin, D. Charalambous, E.M. Forgan, N. Momono M. Oda, C. Dewhurst and C. Baines

Phys. Rev Lett, 97, 177004, [2006]
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A conjecture for phase boundaries in a disordered type-II superconductor

Structure and Freezing of a Disordered Flux Line System
Gautam I. Menon
Phase Transitions, 75, 477, (2002)

Reentrant melting in the mixed phase

Reentrant Peak Effect and the melting of a flux-line lattice in 2H-NbSe2
K. Ghosh, S. Ramakrishnan, A.K. Grover, Gautam I. Menon, Girish Chandra, T.V. Chandrasekhar Rao, G.Ravikumar, P.K. Mishra, V.C. Sahni, C.V. Tomy, G. Balakrishnan, D.Mck Paul and S. Bhattacharya
Phys. Rev. Lett, 76, 4600 (1996)

Review of the density functional approach to flux-lattice melting and related problems

Equilibrium Properties of the Mixed Phase of High-Tc Superconductors in the Presence of Pinning
Chandan Dasgupta and Gautam I. Menon
Chapter in Studies of High-Temperature Superconductors - Vol. 31 Ed. A.V. Narlikar, Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York (2000).

Flux-lattice melting in type-II superconductors

Freezing of the Flux Liquid in High-T$_c$ Superconductors: A Density Functional Approach
S. Sengupta, C. Dasgupta, H.R. Krishnamurthy, Gautam I. Menon and T.V. Ramakrishnan
Phys Rev. Lett, 67, 3444, (1991)
Density Functional theory of flux-lattice melting in high-T_c superconductors
Gautam I. Menon, Chandan Dasgupta, H.R. Krishnamurthy, T.V. Ramakrishnan and Surajit Sengupta
Phys. Rev. B, 54, 16192, (1996).
Density functional theory of vortex lattice melting in layered superconductors: a mean-field--substrate approach
Alvise de Col, Gautam I. Menon and Gianni Blatter
Phys. Rev. B 75 014518 (2007)
cond-mat/0609316

Flux-lattice melting in type-II superconductors: The role of surfaces

Surface Effects on the Pancake Vortex phase Diagram
Alvise de Col, Vadim B. Geshkenbein, Gautam I. Menon and Gianni Blatter
Physica C, 404/1-4, 119, (2004)
Surface Melting of the Vortex Lattice
Alvise de Col, Gautam I. Menon, Vadim B. Geshkenbein and Gianni Blatter
Phys. Rev. Lett, 96, 177001 (2006)
cond-mat/0511046
Surface Melting of the Vortex Lattice in Layered Superconductors: Density Functional Theory
Alvise de Col, Gautam I. Menon, Vadim B. Geshkenbein and Gianni Blatter
Phys. Rev. B, 75, 184532 (2007)
cond-mat/0511046

Disorder and the freezing transition for vortex lines

Effects of pinning disorder on the correlations and freezing of the liquid in layered superconductors
Gautam I. Menon and Chandan Dasgupta
Phys. Rev. Lett, 71, 1024, (1994).

Correlations of a disordered liquid: Applications to scanning experiments

Probing Disordered Substrates by Imaging the Adsorbate in its Fluid Phase
Ankush Sengupta, Surajit Sengupta and Gautam I. Menon
Europhysics Letters, 70(5), 635 (2005)
cond-mat/0410390
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