Force-free current-induced reentrant melting of the vortex lattice in superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 1805091-1805094

  Savel'ev, Sergey ^a   Cattuto, Ciro ^a   Nori, Franco ^a,b  

^a Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTOR; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PHYSICS; SPACE; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 0037634796     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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