On the “Critical Properties and Vortex Matter”

(Response to Roger Woerdenweber’s Comment)

Pierre Bernstein and JF Hamet

CRISMAT-ENSICAEN (UMR-CNRS 6508) F14050 Caen cedex 4, France
e-mail: pierre.bernstein@ensicaen.fr

Abstract – The authors of ST-1 note that their model is proposed only for the case of twinned epitaxial YBCO films and is not general.  However, it accounts for the experimental observations of Gonzàlez et al. and brings insights on the physics of twinned YBCO films by suggesting that the twin boundaries behave as rows of Josephson weak links with energy kBT in the critical state.

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(Received and accepted May 23, 2007; Reference  No. ST1-D2)