Mechanics of individual isolated vortices in a cuprate superconductor

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-39

  Auslaender, Ophir M ^a   Luan, Lan ^a   Straver, Eric W J ^a   Hoffman, Jennifer E ^a,b   Koshnick, Nicholas C ^a   Zeldov, Eli ^a,c   Bonn, Douglas A ^d   Liang, Ruixing ^d   Hardy, Walter N ^d   Moler, Kathryn A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM ALLOYS; BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

CONDENSED MATTER; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; ELASTIC OBJECTS; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPIES (MFM); MICROSCOPIC DEFECTS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; VORTEX STRUCTURES; VORTEX-VORTEX INTERACTION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 58149267887     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1127     Document Type: Article

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