Depinning transition of a two-dimensional vortex lattice in a commensurate periodic potential

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2126-2129

  Gotcheva, Violeta ^a   Teitel, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COULOMB BLOCKADE; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; MELTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

COULOMB GAS; DEPINNING TRANSITION; FINITE SIZE SCALING ANALYSIS; VORTEX LATTICE;

ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 4243292762     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2126     Document Type: Article

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