= Alexei Abrikosov (physicist)
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= Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
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= Alexei A. Abrikosov
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= A. A. Abrikosov
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<Alexei Abrikosov> showed how a <type-II superconductor> can admit magnetic flux while remaining superconducting over most of its volume. In the mixed state, circulating <supercurrents> surround vortex cores where the superconducting <order parameter> is suppressed. An array of these vortices can minimize the <free energy> between the lower and upper critical <magnetic fields>. The resulting vortex lattice explains a regime that lies between complete magnetic-field expulsion and destruction of <superconductivity>.<Nobel Lecture: Type-II superconductors and the vortex lattice by Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov>[mixed-state solution, vortex currents and critical fields]{ref}
A <physicist> who studied <superconductivity> at Argonne.<Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov by Michael R. Norman and Andrey A. Varlamov>[Independent professional identity]{ref}
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