Vortices in high-temperature superconductors

G Blatter, MV Feigel'man, VB Geshkenbein… - Reviews of modern …, 1994 - APS
With the high-temperature superconductors a qualitatively new regime in the
phenomenology of type-II superconductivity can be accessed. The key elements governing …

The flux-line lattice in superconductors

EH Brandt - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic flux can penetrate a type-II superconductor in the form of Abrikosov vortices (also
called flux lines, flux tubes, or fluxons) each carrying a quantum of magnetic flux phi 0= h/2e …

Ground state, collective mode, phase soliton and vortex in multiband superconductors

SZ Lin - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews theoretical and experimental work on the novel physics in multiband
superconductors. Multiband superconductors are characterized by multiple superconducting …

Varieties of dynamics in a disordered flux-line lattice

MJ Higgins, S Bhattacharya - Physica C: Superconductivity and its …, 1996 - Elsevier
Dynamics of a flux-line lattice (FLL) has been studied in the anisotropic superconductor 2H-
NbSe2, where pinning is extremely weak (critical current/depairing current∼ 10− 6), the …

Open questions in the magnetic behaviour of high-temperature superconductors

LF Cohen, HJ Jensen - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
A principally experimental review of vortex behaviour in high-temperature superconductors
is presented. The reader is first introduced to the basic concepts needed to understand the …

Nonlinear current flow in superconductors with restricted geometries

M Friesen, A Gurevich - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
We calculate two-dimensional steady-state distributions of transport electric field E (x, y) and
current density J (x, y) in superconductors with restricted geometries, such as films with …

Coincidence of Vortex-Lattice Melting and Loss of Vortex Correlation along the Direction in Untwinned Single Crystals

D López, EF Righi, G Nieva, F De la Cruz - Physical review letters, 1996 - APS
We report on transport measurements using the dc flux transformer configuration in clean
and twinned single crystals of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ. We show that correlated disorder changes …

Evidence for Josephson vortices in (BEDT-TTFCu(NCS

PA Mansky, PM Chaikin, RC Haddon - Physical Review B, 1994 - APS
We present evidence for and study the properties of coreless Josephson vortices (parallel to
the superconducting layers) in the organic superconductor (BEDT-TTF) 2 Cu (NCS) 2, using …

Temperature dependence of the upper critical field of single crystals

SI Vedeneev, AGM Jansen, E Haanappel, P Wyder - Physical Review B, 1999 - APS
The superconducting resistive transition has been investigated in high-quality Bi 2 Sr 2 CuO
x single crystals with critical temperature T c (midpoint)= 3.7− 9 K in magnetic fields …

Two different thermally activated flux-flow regimes in oxygen-deficient thin films

XG Qiu, B Wuyts, M Maenhoudt, VV Moshchalkov… - Physical Review B, 1995 - APS
We have measured the temperature dependence of the longitudinal resistivity of an oxygen-
deficient YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6.45 thin film in perpendicular applied magnetic fields B< 12 T. A …