Irreversibility, mechanical entanglement and thermal melting in superconducting vortex crystals with point impurities

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 79-86

  Ertaş, Deniz ^a   Nelson, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux lattice melting; Flux pinning; Irreversibility; Topological defects

Indexed keywords

GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; POINT DEFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FLORY ARGUMENTS; FLUX LATTICE MELTING; FLUX PINNING; LINDEMANN CRITERION; MECHANICAL ENTANGLEMENT; SUPERCONDUCTING VORTEX CRYSTALS; THERMAL MELTING; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0030289057     PISSN: 09214534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4534(96)00563-1     Document Type: Article

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