Resistive state of a thin superconducting strip with an engineered central defect Jose Barba-Ortega, Miryam R. Joya and Edson Sardella Eur. Phys. J. B, 92 7 (2019) 143 Published online: 01 July 2019 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2019-100082-y