The low temperature creep of the vortex lattice
Abstract
Metastable states arise in mixed states of superconductors due to their layered structure or due to trapping of vortices by defects (or due to both). We give a general expression for the life time of a metastable state and investigate it in detail near cross-over temperature between classical and quantum regimes.
- Publication:
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Physica B Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- February 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0921-4526(94)91235-1
- Bibcode:
- 1994PhyB..194.1471O