Vortices and Nanostructured Superconductors

1. Vortex Deformation Close to a Pinning Center
Jun-Yi Ge, Joffre Gutierrez, Valadimir N. Gladilin, Jacques Tempere, Jozef T. Devreese, Victor V. Moshchalkov

2. Pinning-Engineered YBa2Cu3Ox Thin Films
Paolo Mele, Adrian Crisan, Malik I. Adam

3. Chemically and Mechanically Engineered Flux Pinning for Enhanced Electromagnetic Properties of MgB2

Soo Kien Chen, Minoru Maeda, Akiyasu Yamamoto, Shi Xue Dou

4. Critical Current Anisotropy in Relation to the Pinning Landscape
Nick J. Long

5. Vortex Avalanches in Superconductors Visualized by Magneto-Optical Imaging
Francesco Laviano

6. Behavior of the Second Magnetization Peak in Self-nanostructured La2–x
Sr
x
CuO4 Single Crystals
Lucica Miu, Alina M. Ionescu, Dana Miu, Ion Ivan, Adrian Crisan

7. Emergence of an Interband Phase Difference and Its Consequences in Multiband Superconductors
Yasumoto Tanaka

8. Fluctuation Modes in Multi-gap Superconductors
Takashi Yanagisawa

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