With the high-temperature superconductors a qualitatively new regime in the
phenomenology of type-II superconductivity can be accessed. The key elements governing …

We review experimental studies of the time decay of the nonequilibrium magnetization in
high-temperature superconductors, a phenomenon known as magnetic relaxation. This …

The effects of thermal fluctuations, quenched disorder, and anisotropy on the phases and
phase transitions in type-II superconductors are examined, focusing on linear and nonlinear …

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 …

This book presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarising
the last thirty-five years of work in the field. The first part of the book is devoted to an …

The effect of weak impurity disorder on flux lattices at equilibrium is studied quantitatively in
the absence of free dislocations using both the Gaussian variational method and the …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the systems coupled to two reservoirs of energy
in such a way that there is a steady energy flow through the system. An example is a resistor …

The current density in type-II superconductor circular disks of arbitrary thickness, or cylinders
of finite length, in an axial magnetic field is calculated from first principles by treating the …

The effect of weak impurity disorder on flux lattices at equilibrium is studied in the absence of
free dislocations using both the Gaussian variational method and, to O (ε= 4-d), the …

We review the prediction, made in a previous work [T. Giamarchi and P. Le Doussal, Phys.
Rev. B 52, 1242 (1995)], that the phase diagram of type-II superconductors consists of a …