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As we have seen in Sect.11, flux pinning allows the establishment of stationary distributions of magnetic fields and currents which are far away from thermodynamic equilibrium. Relaxation toward equilibrium sets in through flow flow as soon as the vortex-density gradient exceeds its critical value. At finite temperatures an additional relaxation mechanism is possible, namely thermally activated flux creep, as first pointed out by ANDERSON [7.4]. Flux creep can reveal itself in two ways: through slow changes of trapped flux and through the appearance of small resistive voltages.
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Huebener, R.P. (1979). Flux Creep and Flux Jumps. In: Magnetic Flux Structures in Superconductors. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02305-1_12
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