The Bean critical state: Infinitely unstable

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages

  Spencer, Steven ^a   Jensen, Henrik Jeldtoft ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bean critical state; Flux creep; Flux pinning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; QUANTUM THEORY;

BEAN CRITICAL STATE; FLUX CREEP; FLUX PINNING;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0030166801     PISSN: 09214534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-4534(96)00240-7     Document Type: Article

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