Superheating and supercooling of vortex matter in a Nb single crystal: direct evidence for a phase transition at the peak effect from neutron diffraction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 712-715

  Ling, X S ^a   Park, S R ^a   McClain, B A ^a   Choi, S M ^b,c   Dender, D C ^b,c   Lynn, J W ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HEATING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NIOBIUM; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCOOLING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENT; SMALL ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; SUPERHEATING;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 0035133722     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.712     Document Type: Article

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