LOW-TEMPERATURE INCREASE OF RESISTIVE CRITICAL FIELDS IN CERTAIN SUPERCONDUCTORS - A SIMPLE FLUCTUATION APPROACH

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作者
COOPER, JR
LORAM, JW
WADE, JM
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[1] Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB30HE, Madingley Road
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1995年 / 51卷 / 09期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.51.6179
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T [工业技术];
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The resistive critical fields of several types of superconductor such as Tl2Ba2CuO6+x, -(BEDT- TTF)2Cu(NCS)2, and Ba1-xKxBiO3 show an unusual increase at low temperatures. We argue that this arises from thermodynamic fluctuations which are strongly enhanced because of the reduction in condensation energy density U(H,T) by a magnetic field. This effect should be significant for any material for which U kBTc at low temperatures and zero field, where is the coherence volume, which probably includes most cuprate superconductors. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:6179 / 6182
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