Publisher's Synopsis
Main headings: Flux Depinning and Current vs. Voltage Characteristics Near the Glass-Liquid Transition; Equilibrium Properties of the Mixed Phase of High-Tc Superconductors in the Presence of Pinning; Microstructure and Flux Pinning in Melt Processed (Nd,Eu,Gd)-Ba-Cu-O Superconductor; Influence of Irradiation-Induced Defects and Chemical Substitutions on the Flux Pinning in Hg-Based Single Crystals and Films; Magnetisation Discontinuities at Melting and Freezing Transitions in YBa2Cu3O7-8; Current-Induced Unbinding of Thermally Created Vortex-Antivortex Pairs in Zero Magnetic Field; Flux Creep-Flux Flow Crossover in the Presence of Disorder in High Temperature Superconductors.