Topological defects in the random-field XY model and the pinned vortex lattice to vortex glass transition in type-II superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 15193-15200

  Gingras, Michel J P ^a   Huse, David A ^b  

^a TRIUMF   (Canada)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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EID: 0000509035     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.15193     Document Type: Article

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