Transition from slow Abrikosov to fast moving Josephson vortices in iron pnictide superconductors

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-138

  Moll, Philip J W ^a   Balicas, Luis ^b   Geshkenbein, Vadim ^a   Blatter, Gianni ^a   Karpinski, Janusz ^a   Zhigadlo, Nikolai D ^a   Batlogg, Bertram ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOWING WELLS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ABRIKOSOV VORTICES; COHERENCE LENGTHS; ELECTRONIC ANISOTROPY; FLUX-FLOW; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-T; IRON PNICTIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; JOSEPHSON; JOSEPHSON VORTICES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MATERIAL ANISOTROPY; MIXED STATE; OUT-OF-PLANE; PNICTIDES; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84872938107     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3489     Document Type: Article

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