Accommodation of vortices to columnar defects: Evidence for large entropic reduction of vortex localization

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 11744-11750

  Krusin Elbaum, L ^a   Civale, L ^a   Thompson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 0000227106     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.11744     Document Type: Article

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