The effect of thermal fluctuations on collective flux-pinning and creeps is investigated for thin-
film superconductors and layered superconductors with weak Josephson coupling between …

The thermal-and disorder-induced effects in the mixed state of a layered high-T c
superconductor (in a field H‖ c) are studied. The flux line lattice is of a quasi-2D type at …

For a high-T c layered superconductor, we study a flux creep when the magnetic field is
parallel to the layers (the CU-O planes) and vortices move across them. In a homogeneous …

The theory of collective pinning in the presence of thermal fluctuations of vortex lines is
developed. Critical current jc is shown to decrease rapidly with temperature. Flux creep …

Thermal fluctuations of vortex lines are shown to be capable of strongly reducing the value
of the critical current in the mixed state of high-T c superconductors. The theory of pinning in …

Reversible flux penetration in uniaxial layered superconductors is studied, taking into
account the possible trapping of vortex cores between layers. This is found to induce high …

The transition in crystalline high-T c superconductors from irreversible to reversible magnetic
behavior above a field-dependent temperature, first ascribed to 'glassiness' then to 'flux …

In superconducting films under an applied dc current, we analyze experimentally and
theoretically the influence of engineered pinning on the vortex velocity at which the flux-flow …

The theory of pinning of a vortex liquid by weak disorder is developed. Two different vortex-
liquid dissipative regimes are shown to exist: the flux flow above some crossover …

A sharp maximum in the critical current J c as a function of temperature just below the
melting point of the Abrikosov flux lattice has recently been observed in both low-and high …