Magnetic relaxation in high-temperature superconductors

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 911-949

  Yeshurun, Y ^a   Malozemoff, A P ^b   Shaulov, A ^a,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0004439296     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.68.911     Document Type: Article

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