Effect of pair breaking on mesoscopic persistent currents well above the superconducting transition temperature

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Bary Soroker, H ^a   Entin Wohlman, O ^a,b   Imry, Y ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; METALS; PRECIOUS METALS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

BREAKING STRENGTH; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOSCOPIC; NOBLE METALS; PAIR BREAKING; PERSISTENT CURRENT; PERSISTENT CURRENTS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS; THOULESS ENERGY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURES;

SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 48849097627     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.057001     Document Type: Article

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