Electromagnetic response of superconductors with pinned vortices.
Some features of the vortex lattice in type-II superconductors and of its pinning and thermally activated depinning are given. Manipulation of a pinned single vortex by the tip of a Magnetic Force Microscope is mentioned. Statics and dynamics of pinned vortices in thick and thin strips and disks, and in rectangular plates, can be computed from continuum theory.
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart D-70506, Germany.
Ernst Helmut
EH
Brandt