Unusual magnetic-field-induced phase transition in the mixed state of superconducting NbSe2

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Sologubenko, A V ^a   Landau, I L ^a,b   Ott, H R ^a   Bilusic, A ^a,c   Smontara, A ^c   Berger, H ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KAPITZA INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Physics   (Croatia)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; HEAT FLUX; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

MAGNETIC FIELD INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION; MIXED STATE; NIOBIUM SELENIDE;

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0348107258     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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