The authors have investigated the magnetic properties of a Y-Ba-Cu-O single crystal using torque and susceptometry techniques. They show that the results are well interpreted by anisotropic flux pinning, which is found to be one order higher along the c direction than in the ab planes.
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Früchter et al. (1988) studied this question.
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