Flux Pinning in Superconductors

• Main Author: Matsushita, Teruo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Physics.; Condensed matter.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.

The book covers the flux pinning mechanisms and properties and the electromagnetic phenomena caused by the flux pinning common for metallic, high-Tc and MgB2 superconductors. The condensation energy interaction known for normal precipitates or grain boundaries and the kinetic energy interaction prop...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Fundamental Electromagnetic Phenomena in Superconductors
• Various Electromagnetic Phenomena
• Longitudinal Magnetic Field Effect
• Measurement Methods for Critical Current Density
• Flux Pinning Mechanism
• Flux Pinning Characteristics
• High-Temperature Superconductors
• MgB2
• A1 Description of Equilibrium State
• A2 Magnetic Properties of a Small Superconductor
• A3 Minimization of Energy Dissipation
• A4 Partition of Pinning Energy
• A5 Comments on the Nonlocal Theory on the Elasticity of the Flux Line Lattice
• A6 Avalanching Flux Flow Model
• A7 Josephson Penetration Depth
• A8 Transverse Flux Bundle Size.