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Considerations Limiting Zero-Resistance Currents in High-Temperature Superconductors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

M. Tinkham*
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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

The fundamental processes governing the appearance of dissipation due to flux motion in superconductors are reviewed. The dominant thermally‐activated resistive processes are discussed, and evidence for a sharp melting transition of the flux lattice is assessed.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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