Peak effect due to Josephson vortices in superconducting Pr0.88LaCe0.12CuO4− single crystals
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Yue Wang,1 Cong Ren,1 Lei Shan,1 Shiliang Li,2 Pengcheng Dai,2,3 and Hai-Hu Wen1,* 1National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA 3Center for Neutron Scattering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6393, USA Received 5 July 2006; revised manuscript received 1 February 2007; published 6 April 2007
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