Specific heat peaks observed up to 16 T on the melting line of the vortex lattice in YBa2Cu3O7

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Volumn 275, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 245-258

  Junod, Alain ^a   Roulin, Marlyse ^a   Genoud, Jean Yves ^a   Revaz, Bernard ^a   Erb, Andreas ^a   Walker, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRUCIBLES; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ENTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; OXIDATION; SPECIFIC HEAT OF SOLIDS; SUPERLATTICES; TWINNING;

MAGNETIZATION JUMPS; PINNING; VORTEX LATTICES;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0031078734     PISSN: 09214534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4534(96)00724-1     Document Type: Article

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