Direct Transition from Bose Glass to Normal State in the (K, Ba)BiO 3 Superconductor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 370051-370054

  Klein, T ^a,b   Marcenat, C ^c,d   Blanchard, S ^a   Marcus, J ^a   Bourbonnais, C ^d   Brusetti, R ^a   Van der Beek, C J ^e   Konczykowski, M ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SOLIDES IRRADIÉS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; FREE ENERGY; HEAT RESISTANCE; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECIFIC HEAT; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BOSE GLASS; HEAVY ION IRRADIATION (HII); THERMODYNAMIC TRANSITION LINES;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 1442306864     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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