Instability and fluctuations of flux lines with point impurities in a parallel current

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 11729-11738

  Kohandel, Mohammad ^a   Kardar, Mehran ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0037551265     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.11729     Document Type: Article

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