Supercooling of the disordered vortex phase via minor hysteresis loops

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 12490-12495

  Ravikumar, G ^a   Mishra, P ^a   Sahni, V ^a   Banerjee, S ^b   Grover, A ^b   Ramakrishnan, S ^b  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

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EID: 0001627942     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.12490     Document Type: Article

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