Ginzburg-Landau description of confinement and quantization effects in mesoscopic superconductors

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Chibotaru, L F ^a   Ceulemans, A ^a   Morelle, M ^a   Teniers, G ^a   Carballeira, C ^a,b   Moshchalkov, V V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

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EID: 26444488666     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2013107     Document Type: Article

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