Size effects in the nonlinear resistance and flux creep in a virtual Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless state of superconducting films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Gurevich, A ^a   Vinokur , V M ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HEALTH; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; OHMIC CONTACTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SIZE DETERMINATION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VORTEX FLOW;

(E ,2E) THEORY; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); ANTIVORTEX; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FILM GEOMETRY; FLUX CREEP; FREE VORTICES; KOSTERLITZ-THOULESS; MAGNETIC (CE); MEISSNER CURRENTS; NONLINEAR RESISTANCE; OHMIC RESISTANCE; SINGLE VORTICES; SIZE EFFECTS (IGC:D0/C7/C8); VORTEX ANTIVORTEX PAIRS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 44949147968     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.227007     Document Type: Article

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