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The effect of magnetic flux creep on the formation of resistive states of the composite superconductors has been studied taking into account their self-heating. The obtained results have been compared with the calculations carried out using the existing thermal stabilization theory, which is based on the model of a stepwise transition from the superconducting to normal state. It has been shown that, over a wide range of the superconductor temperature, this model leads to overrated effective electric resistances of the composite. As a result of its stable self-heating, the notions on the critical current, which determine the maximum transport current and on the resistive transition temperature, the higher of which in the transport current begins dividing between the superconductor and matrix, a loss a physical sense at magnetic flux creep, are used in the existing thermal stabilization theory. As a result, the limits of the theory of thermal stabilization of the composite superconductors can be extended if the theory has been used to describe stable sates at currents, which are higher than the conditionally defined critical current of the composite.
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Original Russian Text © V.R. Romanovskii, 2017, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2017, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 533–539.
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Romanovskii, V.R. Resistive states of the composite superconductors at magnetic flux creep. Tech. Phys. 62, 553–559 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784217040235
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