Observation of the vortex lattice spinodal in NbSe2

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Xiao, Z L ^a,b   Dogru, O ^a   Andrei, E Y ^a   Shuk, P ^a,c   Greenblatt, M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CURRENT DENSITY; DIAMONDS; FREE ENERGY; HALL EFFECT; HYSTERESIS; LITHIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FAST-CURRENT RAMPS (FCR); METASTABILITY; SWEEP RATE; VORTEX LATTICES;

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 3042800567     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.227004     Document Type: Article

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