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Letter
Nature Physics 5, 35–39 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/nphys1127
Mechanics of individual isolated vortices in a cuprate superconductor
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Abstract
Superconductors often contain quantized microscopic whirlpools of electrons, called vortices, that can be modelled as one-dimensional elastic objects. Vortices are a diverse area of study for condensed matter because of the interplay between thermal fluctuations, vortex–vortex interactions and the interaction of the vortex core with the three-dimensional disorder landscape.
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