New Superconductors

From Granular To High Tc

By: Guy Deutscher

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Hardcover | 7 August 2006

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How new are the high Tc superconductors, as compared to the conventional low Tc ones? In what sense are these oxides different from regular metals in their normal state? How different is the mechanism for high Tc superconductivity from the well-known electron-phonon interaction that explains so well superconductivity in metals and alloys? What are the implications of the new features of the high Tc oxides for their practical applications? This book aims to give some answers to those questions, drawing particularly on similarities between the high Tc oxides and granular superconductors, which also present a maximum of their critical temperature near the metal-insulator transition.

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readers will benefit from the compelling insights of a researcher who has thought deeply about both grandular and high-Tc superconductors -- Physics Today "Physics Today"

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Superfluidity	p. 1
The Landau critical velocity	p. 1
Origin of the condensate	p. 4
Phase of the condensate	p. 8
Two-Fermion superfluids	p. 10
The Meissner effect	p. 13
Flux quantization	p. 14
BCS superconducting metals	p. 16
Condensation energy	p. 16
The BCS wave function	p. 17
Summary	p. 19
Further reading	p. 20
Coherence length, penetration depth and critical temperature	p. 21
Origin of the coherence length in superconducting metals	p. 22
Experimental methods for the determination of the coherence length	p. 25
Boundary effect	p. 26
Nucleation field	p. 28
Nucleation field and thermodynamical critical field	p. 29
Surface nucleation	p. 31
Experimental results for the coherence length	p. 32
Boundary effect experiments	p. 32
Nucleation field measurements	p. 32
Comparison with theoretical predictions	p. 35
Penetration depth and critical temperature	p. 37
The Uemura law	p. 37
Granular superconductors	p. 38
Further reading	p. 40
The phase transition	p. 43
Free energies	p. 43
Metals: mean field behavior	p. 45
Examples of non-mean field behavior	p. 46
The anomalous normal state in the ceramics	p. 47
Fluctuations	p. 50
The small grain case	p. 50
Three-dimensional fluctuations: quasi-mean field treatment	p. 53
The heat capacity transition in the High T[subscript c]: the case of YBCO	p. 55
The heat capacity transition in high anisotropy cuprates	p. 59
Condensation energies	p. 60
Summary	p. 61
Further reading	p. 62
Phase diagrams	p. 63
Granular superconductors	p. 65
The granular structure	p. 66
The M/I transition in the granular structure: progressive Coulomb blockade	p. 68
Transport regimes and the phase diagram	p. 69
Loss of superfluid density and decrease of T[subscript c] near the M/I transition	p. 76
The short coherence length of granular superconductors	p. 78
Phase diagram of the cuprates	p. 81
Transport regimes and the phase diagram	p. 84
Loss of superfluid density and critical temperature in the cuprates	p. 87
Summary	p. 89
Further reading	p. 89
Gap, symmetry and pseudo-gap	p. 91
The BCS s-wave gap	p. 92
The BCS density of states	p. 92
Giaever tunneling and Andreev-Saint-James reflections	p. 94
Gap symmetry in the cuprates	p. 99
Experimental evidence for low lying states	p. 99
Gap anisotropy	p. 101
Superconducting gap and pseudo-gap	p. 111
Summary	p. 114
Further reading	p. 115
Basics on vortices	p. 117
Vortices and vortex matter	p. 117
The isolated vortex	p. 118
The line energy	p. 118
Vortex rigidity and pinning	p. 120
Formation of the vortex lattice	p. 121
Field of first entry: equilibrium	p. 122
Field of first entry: Bean-Livingston barrier	p. 122
Vortex interactions and lattice formation	p. 123
Lattice deformations	p. 125
The Abrikosov lattice near H[subscript c2]	p. 126
Vortex motion	p. 127
Probing surface currents in d-wave superconductors	p. 130
Summary	p. 133
Further reading	p. 133
Cuprate superconductors under strong fields	p. 135
Vortex lattice melting	p. 136
Lattice melting - Lindemann criterion	p. 137
Melting and order parameter fluctuation effects	p. 139
Loss of line tension	p. 141
Effect of disorder on vortex phase transitions	p. 143
Experiments on vortex phase transitions	p. 143
Experimental methods	p. 143
Vortex phase transitions in Bi 2212 crystals	p. 147
Vortex phase transitions in YBCO crystals	p. 149
Summary	p. 153
Further reading	p. 153
From fundamentals to applications	p. 155
The need for high critical temperatures and fields	p. 155
High critical temperatures	p. 158
BCS theory	p. 158
The McMillan strong coupling extension of the BCS theory	p. 159
Density of states effects	p. 160
The BCS to Bose-Einstein strong coupling cross-over	p. 163
Unconventional pairing mechanisms	p. 169
Is there a BCS to BE cross-over in the cuprates?	p. 172
Critical currents in weak fields: the depairing limit	p. 173
Upper critical fields	p. 174
Zero temperature limit	p. 174
Practical upper temperature for superconductivity	p. 177
Role of the condensation energy	p. 177
Loss of line tension	p. 181
Concluding remarks: coupling strength versus useful high T[subscript c]	p. 185
Further reading	p. 186
HTS conductors and their applications	p. 189
Grain boundaries	p. 191
First and second generation wires	p. 196
Properties of first generation wires	p. 197
Applications of 1G wire	p. 199
Progress in coated conductors: 2G wire	p. 204
Coated conductor performance	p. 208
Further reading	p. 218
Index	p. 219
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