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The stable current distribution in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8, Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O8, and YBa2Cu3O7 high-temperature superconductors depending on conditions of cooling thereof by liquid cryocoolants—helium, hydrogen, and nitrogen, respectively—is studied. It is shown that the current instability mechanism may change in going from one coolant to another. Consequently, stable states may be disturbed, first, when the conditions of cooling the superconductor surface change from nucleate boiling to film boiling. Such a thermal mechanism of stable current state disturbance is observed largely when a superconductor is cooled by liquid helium. Second, even for the nucleate boiling of a liquid coolant, current instability may result from the stable formation of the voltage-current characteristic of the superconductor. This type of injected current stability disturbance is most likely when a superconductor is cooled by liquid nitrogen. Criteria for determining a current instability mechanism in relation to the properties of the superconductor and coolant are given.
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Original Russian Text © V.R. Romanovskii, 2009, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 79, No. 12, pp. 44–51.
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Romanovskii, V.R. Current instability mechanisms in liquid-coolant-cooled high-temperature superconductors. Tech. Phys. 54, 1767–1773 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784209120081
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