Abstract
The current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of various MgB2 films have been studied at different magnetic fields parallel to the c axis. At fields mu H-0 between 0 and 5 T, vortex liquid-glass transitions were found in the I-V isotherms. Consistently, the I-V curves measured at different temperatures show a scaling behavior in the framework of quasi-two-dimension (quasi-2D) vortex-glass theory. However, at mu H-0 >= 5 T, a finite dissipation was observed down to the lowest temperature here, T=1.7 K, and the I-V isotherms did not scale in terms of any known scaling law, of any dimensionality. We suggest that this may be caused by a mixture of sigma band vortices and pi band quasiparticles. Interestingly, the I-V curves at zero magnetic field can still be scaled according to the quasi-2D vortex-glass formalism, indicating an equivalent effect of self-field due to persistent current and applied magnetic field.