Dynamics of multishell vortex structures in mesoscopic superconducting Corbino disks

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Lin, N S ^a   Misko, V R ^a   Peeters, F M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

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EID: 77955225740     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.134504     Document Type: Article

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