@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00047358, author = {Sun, Yue and Pyon, Sunseng and Tamegai, Tsuyoshi and Kobayashi, Ryo and Watashige, Tatsuya and Kasahara, Shigeru and Matsuda, Yuji and Shibauchi, Takasada and Kitamura, Hisashi and Sun Yue and 卞 舜生 and 為ケ井 強 and 北村 尚}, issue = {11}, journal = {Applied Physics Express}, month = {Oct}, note = {We report a comprehensive study of the effect of H+ irradiation on the critical current density Jc and vortex pinning in an FeSe single crystal. The value of Jc for FeSe is enhanced by more than a factor of 2 after 3-MeV H+ irradiation, which is explained by the introduction of point pinning centers. Vortex creep rates are found to be strongly suppressed after irradiation. Detailed analyses of the pinning energy based on collective-creep-theory and an extended Maley's method show that the H+ irradiation enhances the value of Jc before the flux creep and also reduces the size of the flux bundle, which suppresses the field dependence of Jc owing to vortex motion.}, pages = {113102-1--113102-4}, title = {Enhancement of critical current density and mechanism of vortex pinning in H+-irradiated FeSe single crystal}, volume = {8}, year = {2015} }