Low Temperature Physics-LT 13: Volume 3: Superconductivity

ISBN-13: 9781468426908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 834 str.

K. D. Timmerhaus; W. J. O. Sullivan; E. F. Hammel

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A Survey of Superconducting Materials.- Fluctuations in Superconductors.- Superconductivity at High Pressures.- Structure of a Vortex in a Dirty Superconductor.- Observation of Landau-Type Branching in the Intermediate State.- Attractive Interaction between Vortices in Type II Superconductors at Arbitrary Temperatures.- Calculation of the Vortex Structure at All Temperatures.- Magnetic Field Distribution in Type II Superconductors by Neutron Diffraction.- Neutron Diffraction Test of Type II Theories in Relation to Temperature.- Nuclear Spin—Spin Relaxation in Superconducting Mixed-State Vanadium.- On the Nature of Flux Transport Noise.- Flux Kinetics Associated with Flux Jumps in Type II Superconductors.- Impurity Effect on the Anisotropy of the Upper Critical Field of Nb—Ta Alloys.- Vortex Transport Interference Transitions.- An Alternating Current Investigation of Pinning Sites.- Effects of Surface Superconductivity in Low ? Al—Ag Alloys.- A Model for Flux Pinning in Superconductors.- Flux Flow of Pure and Dirty Superconductors.- The Specific Heat of Very Pure Niobium in the Meissner and Mixed States.- Temperature Dependence of Ultrasonic Attenuation in the Mixed State of Pure Niobium.- Mixed-State Ultrasonic Attenuation in Clean Niobium.- The Attenuation of Sound, ql > 1, in Niobium at Low Flux Densities.- Thermal Conduction in the Mixed State of Superconducting Niobium at Low Temperatures.- Entropy of a Type II Superconductor in the Mixed State Close to Tc.- Flux Pinning in Type II Superconductors.- Magnetic Moment in Superconductors Excited by Heat Flow.- Transition to the Mixed State in Lead Films at 4.2°K.- Observation of Tilted Vortices by Microwave Absorption.- Microwave Absorption in Dirty Type II Superconducting Films Around Their Critical Thickness.- Experimental Evidence for the Thompson Term in the Microwave Conductivity of Type II Superconductors.- Dynamic Structure of Vortices in Superconductors: Three-Dimensional Features.- Higher-Order Corrections Due to the Order Parameter to the Flux Flow Conductivity of Dirty Type II Superconductors.- The Nascent Vortex State of Type II Superconductors.- Hall Effect in Type II Superconductors.- Current-Induced Intermediate State in Superconducting Strips of Lead and Indium.- Dissipation in a Superconducting Indium Wire.- Flux Motion in Lead—Indium Wires with Longitudinal Magnetic Fields.- Faraday Induction and Flux Flow Voltages in Type II Superconductors: Effect of Magnetic Field and Temperature.- Investigations of Resonances in the RF Absorption of Superconducting Niobium.- Dynamics of the Destruction of Type I Superconductivity by a Current.- Influence of Thermal Effects on the Kinetics of the Destruction of Superconductivity by a Current.- Fast Neutron Damage in Superconducting Vanadium.- The Effect of an Axial Moment on Normal-Phase Propagation in Type II Superconductors Carrying a Current.- Response of Magnetically Irreversible Type II Cylinders to Currents and Fields Applied in a Parallel Axial Geometry.- Limited Flux Jumps in Hard Superconductors.- Boundary Current and Modulated Flux Motion in Superconducting Thin Pb Films.- Effect of Helical Flow on lc in Cylinders of Type II Superconductors in Axial Magnetic Fields.- Achievement of Nearly Force-Free Flow of Induced Currents in Ribbons of Nb3Sn.- Effect of DC and AC Currents on the Surface Sheath Conductivity of Niobium Single Crystals.- Thermodynamic Properties of Josephson Junction with a Normal Metal Barrier.- Linewidth of Relaxation Oscillations of a Shunted Superconducting Point Contact.- Evidence for the Existence of the Josephson Quasiparticle-Pair Interference Current.- Microwave Emission from Coupled Josephson Junctions.- Application of the Shunted Junction Model to Point-Contact Josephson Junctions.- Characteristics of Josephson Point Contacts at the Center of a Spherical Cavity.- Temperature Dependence of the Riedel Singularity.- Fine Structure in the Anomalous DC Current Singularities of a Josephson Tunnel Junction.- Temperature Dependence of the Critical Current of a Double Josephson Junction.- Tunneling Measurement of Magnetic Scattering.- Josephson Weak Links: Two Models.- Anomalous Tunneling Characteristics.- Tunneling and Josephson Experiments in Normal—Superconductor Sandwiches.- Bulk Tunneling Measurements of the Superconducting Energy Gaps of Gallium, Indium, and Aluminum.- Two-Particle Tunneling in Superconducting Pbln | Oxide | Pb Junctions.- Theory and Measurements on Lead—Tellurium—Lead Supercurrent Junctions.- Tunneling from Pb into Al and Sn in Proximity.- Magnetic Field Dependence of the Proximity Effect in the Sn/Pb System.- The Superconducting Tunnel Junction as a Voltage-Tunable Source of Monochromatic Phonon Pulses.- Tunneling Measurements of Electron Spin Effects in Superconductors.- High-Field Behavior of the Density of States of Superconductors with Magnetic Impurities.- NMR Anomalies and Superconductivity in Transition Metals: Vanadium.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Relaxation in V3Ga1?x Snx.- Ultrasonic Evidence against Multiple Energy Gaps in Superconducting Niobium.- Superconducting Specific Heat of Nb—Ta Alloys.- Superconductivity of Protactinium.- The Superconductive Transition in Cadmium.- Contributions at the La and Sn—In Sites to Superconductivity and Magnetism in LaSnxIn3?x Alloys.- Variation of the Electron-Phonon Interaction Strength in Superconducting LaIn3?xSnx.- Superconducting Properties of LaSnxIn3?x.- Superconducting Transition Temperatures and Annealing Effect of Single-Crystalline NbNx Films.- Calorimetric Studies of Superconductive Proximity Effects in a Two-Phase Ti—Fe (7.5 at. %) Alloy.- Heat Capacity of Rubidium Tungsten Bronze.- Specific Heat, Optical, and Transport Properties of Hexagonal Tungsten Bronzes.- High-Transition-Temperature Ternary Superconductors.- Layered Compounds, Intercalation, and Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements.- Fluctuation Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Superconducting Layered Compounds.- Studies of the Properties of the System TaS2?xSex.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Layered Diselenides.- Microwave Properties of Superconducting Intercalated 2H-TaS2.- The Influence of the Limits of Phase Stability and Atomic Order on Superconductivity of Binary and Ternary A15-Type Compounds.- The Importance of the Transition Metal Volume in A15 Superconductors.- Tc Studies of Nb—Ga Binary and Ternary Compounds 461.- Synthesis of Low-Temperature Stable Superconducting A15 Compounds in the Niobium System.- Studies of Superconducting Nb3AxB1?x Alloys.- Low-Temperature Heat Capacity of Nb3Sn.- Superconductivity in the Alloy System V3GaxSi1?x.- Superconducting Properties of A15 Phase V—Ir Alloys.- Superconducting Properties of Some Vanadium-Rich Titanium—Vanadium Alloy Thin Films.- Superconductivity of Lutetium at Very High Pressure: Implications with Resped to the Superconductivity of Lanthanum.- Superconductivity of Hafnium and the Dependence of Tc on Pressure.- Superconducting Properties of Iridium.- The Effect of Stress on the Magnetic Superconducting Transitions of Tin Whiskers.- The Strain Dependence of Tc in Sn and In Alloy Whiskers.- The Effect of Size and Surface on the Specific Heat of Small Metal Particles.- Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Cesium.- The Influence of Dissolved Hydrogen on the Superconducting Properties of Molybdenum.- Low-Temperature Neutron Irradiation Effects in Superconducting Technetium and Niobium.- The Superconductivity of Elastically Strained Tin Whiskers Near Tc(?): A Second-Order Phase Transition with Two Degrees of Freedom.- Experimental Evidence for an Atomic-like Parameter Characterizing the Systematics of Superconductivity in the Transition Metals.- Modification of Surface Mode Frequencies and Superconductivity Tc by Adsorbed Layers.- Effect of Surface Charge on the Superconductivity of Vanadium Films.- Carrier Concentration and the Superconductivity of Beryllium Films.- The Upper Critical Field and the Density of States in Amorphous Superconductors.- Superconductivity and Metastability in Alloys of the Mo—Re System.- Superconducting Properties of Crystalline Films of Aluminum on Silicon.- Granular Refractory Superconductors.- Structural and Superconducting Properties of Granular Aluminum Films.- Electron Localization in Granular Metals.- Strong Coupling Superconductivity.- Phonon Spectrum of La.- A Simple Experiment for the Determination of the BCS Parameter in Normal Metals.- Variations of Cutoff Phonon Frequencies in Strong-Coupling Superconductors.- The Electron—Phonon Enhancement Factor for Some Transition Metals.- Neutron Scattering, Phonon Spectra, and Superconductivity.- Superconductivity and Anomalous Phonon Dispersion in TaC.- Soft Transverse Phonons in an Amorphous Metal.- Lattice Structure and Instabilities and Electron—Phonon Coupling in Superconductors with High Transition Temperatures.- One-Dimensional Superconductivity in Bismuth Films.- Evidence for Magnetic-Field-Induced Reduction of the Fluctuation Dimensionality in Bulk Type II Superconductors Just Above the Upper Critical Field Hc2.- Fluctuation Conductivity of Superconductors.- Critical Fluctuation Behavior in the Resistive Transition of Superconducting Bi Films.- A Study of Fluctuation Effects on Resistive Transition to Superconductivity in Thin Indium Films.- Fluctuation Effects in the AC Impedance of One-Dimensional Superconductors.- Functional Integral Method for Superconducting Critical Phenomena.- Isothermal Superconducting Transitions in Milligauss Fields.- Fluctuation-Induced Diamagnetism above Tc in Al and Al—Ag Alloys.- Fluctuation-Induced Diamagnetism in Bulk Al and Al Alloys above the Superconducting Transition Temperature.- Thermodynamic Fluctuations in “Zero-Dimensional” Superconductors.- Size Effects in the Fluctuation Diamagnetic Susceptibility of Indium Powders above Tc.- Fluctuations in a Small Superconducting Grain.- Coherent Behavior in Josephson Junction Arrays.- Instabilities in the Voltage—Current Characteristics of Current-Carrying One-Dimensional Superconductors.- Intrinsic Fluctuations in a Superconducting “Flux Detector” Ring Closed by a Josephson Junction: Theory and Experiment.- The Pair-Field Susceptibility of Superconductors.- High-Resolution Magnetooptical Experiments on Magnetic Structures in Superconductors.- Growth and Current-Induced Motion of the Landau Domain Structure.- Investigation of Possibilities for Raising the Critical Temperature of Superconductors.- Resistance of Superconducting Alloys Near Tc As Caused by Vortex Structure Motion.- The Anisotropy of the Static Magnetic Field Penetration Depth in Superconducting Tin.- Ultrasonic Attenuation in Superconducting Indium and Indium—Tin Alloys.- Low-Temperature Anomalies in Pure Niobium Studied Ultrasonically.- Ultrasonic Absorption in Superconducting Single Crystals of Nb1?xMox.- The Volume Change at the Superconducting Transition of Lead and Aluminum above 0.3°K.- Nuclear Spin—Lattice Relaxation in Impure Superconducting Indium.- Electronic Part of the Thermal Conductivity of a Thin, Superconducting Film Composed of Lead and Gadolinium.- Thermoelectrostatic Effects in Superconductors.- Structure of Superconductors with Dilute Magnetic Impurities.- Bose Condensation in Superconductors and Liquid 4He.- Enhanced Plasticity in the Superconducting State.- Relation between Superconducting Energy Gaps and Critical Magnetic Fields.- Theory of Superconductors with Spatially Varying Order Parameter.- Observation of Pair-Quasiparticle Potential Difference in Non-equilibrium Superconductors.- Electric Potential Near a Superconducting Boundary.- of Other Volumes.- Index to Contributors.