Vortex liquid crystals in anisotropic type II superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Carlson, E W ^a,b   Castro Neto, A H ^a   Campbell, D K ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STIFFNESS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

ANISOTROPIC SUPERFLUID STIFFNESS; INTRINSIC PINNING; VORTES LATTICE MELTING;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 0037471167     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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