Pinning phenomena in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 339-372

  Aftalion, Amandine ^a   Sandier, Etienne ^b   Serfaty, Sylvia ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Ginzburg Landau; Homogenization; Pinning; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001061329     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-7824(00)01180-6     Document Type: Article

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