With the high-temperature superconductors a qualitatively new regime in the
phenomenology of type-II superconductivity can be accessed. The key elements governing …

Kinetic interfaces form the basis of a fascinating, interdisciplinary branch of statistical
mechanics. Diverse stochastic growth processes can be unified via an intriguing nonlinear …

The behavior of vortex matter in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) controls the entire
electromagnetic response of the material, including its current carrying capacity. Here, we …

We review experimental studies of the time decay of the nonequilibrium magnetization in
high-temperature superconductors, a phenomenon known as magnetic relaxation. This …

A theory of vortex pinning in high-temperature superconductors by correlated disorder in the
form of twin boundaries, grain boundaries, and columnar defects is described. Mapping …

In materials with strong local Coulomb interactions, simple defects such as atomic
substitutions strongly affect both macroscopic and local properties of the system. A …

Most large-scale applications of the high-temperature copper oxide superconductors
(HTSCs) require high critical current densities (J c's) at temperatures near the boiling point of …

In the past few years magneto-optical flux imaging (MOI) has come to take an increasing role
in the investigation and understanding of critical current densities in high-T c …

The physics of flux lines in the cuprate superconductors pinned by columnar defects is
mapped onto boson localization in two dimensions. The theory predicts a Bose glass phase …

Columnar defects introduced by irradiation with very energetic heavy ions are the most
effective pinning centres for flux lines in high-temperature superconductors. This correlated …