It is shown that quasiparticle scattering by a defect in a superconductor leads to large elementary pinning energies of flux lines. In the case of a small radius (R) point defect the new mechanism outweighs the traditional volume effect by the factor ξ₀R.
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Thuneberg et al. (1982) studied this question.
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