Growth of a vortex polycrystal in type II superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Moretti, Paolo ^a,b   Miguel, M Carmen ^c   Zaiser, Michael ^b   Zapperi, Stefano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELASTICITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INTEGRATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUENCHING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

BRAGG GLASSES; ELASTIC FORCES; PINNING; VORTEX POLYCRYSTALS;

POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 3442893987     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.257004     Document Type: Article

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