Real-space vortex glass imaging and the vortex phase diagram of SnMo6S8

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 25, 2009, Pages

  Petrovic A P ^a   Fasano, Y ^a,e   Lortz, R ^b   Senatore, C ^a   Demuer, A ^c   Antunes, A B ^c   Pare A ^c   Salloum, D ^d   Gougeon, P ^d   Potel, M ^d   Fischer, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHER TEMPERATURES; KINETIC GLASS; MAGNETIZATION PEAK; PEAK EFFECTS; POSITIONAL DISORDER; REAL-SPACE; TOPOLOGICAL DISORDER; UPPER BOUNDARY; VORTEX GLASS; VORTEX MELTING; VORTEX PHASE DIAGRAM;

GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TECHNETIUM;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 72049116030     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.257001     Document Type: Article

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