R. G. Mints

TL;DR: In this paper, the physics of current-carrying superconductors and normal metals having two or more stable states sustained by Joule self-heating are studied, and the connection between thermal bistability and hysteresis, dropping and stepped currentvoltage characteristics, self-induced oscillations of current and voltage, selfreplication of electrothermal domains and formation of periodic and stochastic resistive structures are considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review is devoted to the problem of critical state stability in hard superconductors and superconducting normal composites, and the qualitative nature of the physical processes that occur in these materials in the critical state.

TL;DR: In this article, the macroscopic properties of composite superconductors, and the processes that occur in them, are studied in a unified account of the subject and cover all important aspects of composite materials, such as structure and physical characteristics, losses, stability of the critical state, superconducting to normal transition, and high-temperature superconductivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the interplay of hot spots and standing electromagnetic waves by low-temperature scanning laser microscopy and terahertz emission measurements, using stacks of various geometries.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated experimentally the existence of Josephson junctions having a doubly degenerate ground state with an average Josephson phase ψ=±φ, and it is shown that this phase can be set to a particular state by tuning an external magnetic field, or by using a proper bias current sweep sequence.