Experimental evidence for giant vortex states in a mesoscopic superconducting disk

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 25, 2004, Pages

  Kanda, A ^a   Baelus, B J ^a,b   Peeters, P M ^b   Kadowaki, K ^a   Ootuka, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE LENGTH; GINZBURG-LANDAU (GL) THEORY; MULTIPLE-SMALL-TUNNEL-JUNCTION (MSTJ) METHOD; MULTIVORTEX STATES (MVS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FREE ENERGY; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; VACUUM; VORTEX FLOW;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 37649029233     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.257002     Document Type: Article

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