Entropy driven fragmentation of the locked vortices in YBa2Cu3Oy single crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5110-5113

  Zhukov, A A ^a,b,c   Kupfer H ^b   De Groot, P A J ^a   Wolf, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0009150451     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5110     Document Type: Article

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