SELF-HEATING VERSUS QUANTUM CREEP IN BULK SUPERCONDUCTORS

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GERBER, A
FRANSE, JJM
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[1] Van der Waals(enZeeman Laboratorium, University of Amsterdam, 1018 XE Amsterdam
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1895
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We have performed simultaneous measurements of magnetic relaxation and the accompanying power dissipation in a number of BiSrCaCuO crystals at temperatures between 0.5 and 4.2 K. The nonvanishing relaxation rate in bulk superconductors at low temperatures, recently discussed as evidence of a quantum tunneling of vortices, is argued to be governed by self-heating of the superconductor by moving vortices.
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