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Effect of carbon nanotube doping on critical current density of MgB2 superconductor
The effect of doping MgB2 with carbon nanotubes on transition temperature,
lattice parameters, critical current density and flux pinning was studied for
MgB2-xCx with x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3. The carbon substitution for B was
found to enhance Jc in magnetic fields but depress Tc. The depression of Tc,
which is caused by the carbon substitution for B, increases with increasing
doping level, sintering temperature and duration. By controlling the extent of
the substitution and addition of carbon nanotubes we can achieve the optimal
improvement on critical current density and flux pinning in magnetic fields
while maintaining the minimum reduction in Tc. Under these conditions, Jc was
enhanced by two orders of magnitude at 8T and 5K and 7T and 10K. Jc was more
than 10,000A/cm2 at 20K and 4T and 5K and 8.5T, respectively
Rigidity of stationary black holes with small angular momentum on the horizon
We prove a black hole rigidity result for slowly rotating stationary
solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations. More precisely, we prove that the
domain of outer communications of a regular stationary vacuum is isometric to
the domain of outer communications of a Kerr solution, provided that the
stationary Killing vector-field \T is small on the bifurcation sphere.Comment: Minor corrections, submitted versio
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