Low Temperature Physics-LT 13: Volume 3: Superconductivity

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Survey of Superconducting Materials....Pages 3-13
Fluctuations in Superconductors....Pages 14-26
Superconductivity at High Pressures....Pages 27-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Structure of a Vortex in a Dirty Superconductor....Pages 37-41
Observation of Landau-Type Branching in the Intermediate State....Pages 42-45
Attractive Interaction between Vortices in Type II Superconductors at Arbitrary Temperatures....Pages 46-48
Calculation of the Vortex Structure at All Temperatures....Pages 49-53
Magnetic Field Distribution in Type II Superconductors by Neutron Diffraction....Pages 54-63
Neutron Diffraction Test of Type II Theories in Relation to Temperature....Pages 64-68
Nuclear Spin—Spin Relaxation in Superconducting Mixed-State Vanadium....Pages 69-72
On the Nature of Flux Transport Noise....Pages 75-78
Flux Kinetics Associated with Flux Jumps in Type II Superconductors....Pages 79-81
Impurity Effect on the Anisotropy of the Upper Critical Field of Nb—Ta Alloys....Pages 82-85
Vortex Transport Interference Transitions....Pages 86-89
An Alternating Current Investigation of Pinning Sites....Pages 90-94
Effects of Surface Superconductivity in Low- к Al-Ag Alloys....Pages 95-101
A Model for Flux Pinning in Superconductors....Pages 102-106
Flux Flow of Pure and Dirty Superconductors....Pages 107-111
The Specific Heat of Very Pure Niobium in the Meissner and Mixed States....Pages 112-115
Temperature Dependence of Ultrasonic Attenuation in the Mixed State of Pure Niobium....Pages 116-119
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Mixed-State Ultrasonic Attenuation in Clean Niobium....Pages 120-124
The Attenuation of Sound, ql > 1, in Niobium at Low Flux Densities....Pages 125-129
Thermal Conduction in the Mixed State of Superconducting Niobium at Low Temperatures....Pages 130-133
Entropy of a Type II Superconductor in the Mixed State Close to T c ....Pages 134-137
Flux Pinning in Type II Superconductors....Pages 138-142
Magnetic Moment in Metals Excited by Heat Flow....Pages 143-146
Transition to the Mixed State in Lead Films at 4.2°K....Pages 147-151
Observation of Tilted Vortices by Microwave Absorption....Pages 152-155
Microwave Absorption in Dirty Type II Superconducting Films Around Their Critical Thickness....Pages 156-159
Experimental Evidence for the Thompson Term in the Microwave Conductivity of Type II Superconductors....Pages 160-162
Dynamic Structure of Vortices in Superconductors: Three-Dimensional Features....Pages 163-167
Higher-Order Corrections Due to the Order Parameter to the Flux Flow Conductivity of Dirty Type II Superconductors....Pages 168-171
The Nascent Vortex State of Type II Superconductors....Pages 172-176
Hall Effect in Type II Superconductors....Pages 177-180
Current-Induced Intermediate State in Superconducting Strips of Lead and Indium....Pages 183-186
Dissipation in a Superconducting Indium Wire....Pages 187-191
Flux Motion in Lead-Indium Wires with Longitudinal Magnetic Fields....Pages 192-196
Faraday Induction and Flux Flow Voltages in Type II Superconductors: Effect of Magnetic Field and Temperature....Pages 197-201
Investigations of Resonances in the RF Absorption of Superconducting Niobium....Pages 202-206
Dynamics of the Destruction of Type I Superconductivity by a Current....Pages 207-211
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Influence of Thermal Effects on the Kinetics of the Destruction of Superconductivity by a Current....Pages 212-216
Fast Neutron Damage in Superconducting Vanadium....Pages 217-220
The Effect of an Axial Moment on Normal-Phase Propagation in Type II Superconductors Carrying a Current....Pages 221-226
Response of Magnetically Irreversible Type II Cylinders to Currents and Fields Applied in a Parallel Axial Geometry....Pages 227-231
Limited Flux Jumps in Hard Superconductors....Pages 232-237
Boundary Current and Modulated Flux Motion in Superconducting Thin Pb Films....Pages 238-240
Effect of Helical Flow on I c in Cylinders of Type II Superconductors in Axial Magnetic Fields....Pages 241-246
Achievement of Nearly Force-Free Flow of Induced Currents in Ribbons of Nb 3 Sn....Pages 247-251
Effect of DC and AC Currents on the Surface Sheath Conductivity of Niobium Single Crystals....Pages 252-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Thermodynamic Properties of Josephson Junction with a Normal Metal Barrier....Pages 259-263
Linewidth of Relaxation Oscillations of a Shunted Superconducting Point Contact....Pages 264-267
Evidence for the Existence of the Josephson Quasiparticle-Pair Interference Current....Pages 268-271
Microwave Emission from Coupled Josephson Junctions....Pages 272-275
Application of the Shunted Junction Model to Point-Contact Josephson Junctions....Pages 276-280
Characteristics of Josephson Point Contacts at the Center of a Spherical Cavity....Pages 281-284
Temperature Dependence of the Riedel Singularity....Pages 285-288
Fine Structure in the Anomalous DC Current Singularities of a Josephson Tunnel Junction....Pages 289-292
Temperature Dependence of the Critical Current of a Double Josephson Junction....Pages 293-296
Tunneling Measurement of Magnetic Scattering....Pages 297-300
Josephson Weak Links: Two Models....Pages 301-305
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Anomalous Tunneling Characteristics....Pages 306-311
Tunneling and Josephson Experiments in Normal—Superconductor Sandwiches....Pages 312-315
Bulk Tunneling Measurements of the Superconducting Energy Gaps of Gallium, Indium, and Aluminum....Pages 316-323
Two-Particle Tunneling in Superconducting PbIn|Oxide|Pb Junctions....Pages 324-327
Theory and Measurements on Lead—Tellurium—Lead Supercurrent Junctions....Pages 328-333
Tunneling from Pb into Al and Sn in Proximity....Pages 334-336
Magnetic Field Dependence of the Proximity Effect in the Sn/Pb System....Pages 337-340
The Superconducting Tunnel Junction As a Voltage-Tunable Source of Monochromatic Phonon Pulses....Pages 341-344
Tunneling Measurements of Electron Spin Effects in Superconductors....Pages 345-353
High-Field Behavior of the Density of States of Superconductors with Magnetic Impurities....Pages 354-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
NMR Anomalies and Superconductivity in Transition Metals: Vanadium....Pages 361-365
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Relaxation in V 3 Ga 1− x Sn x ....Pages 366-366
Ultrasonic Evidence against Multiple Energy Gaps in Superconducting Niobium....Pages 367-371
Superconducting Specific Heat of Nb—Ta Alloys....Pages 372-376
Superconductivity of Protactinium....Pages 377-381
The Superconductive Transition in Cadmium....Pages 382-386
Contributions at the La and Sn—In Sites to Superconductivity and Magnetism in LaSn x In 3−x Alloys....Pages 387-391
Variation of the Electron—Phonon Interaction Strength in Superconducting LaIn 3−x Sn x ....Pages 392-394
Superconducting Properties of LaSn x In 3 − x ....Pages 395-398
Superconducting Transition Temperatures and Annealing Effect of Single-Crystalline NbN x Films....Pages 399-402
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Calorimetric Studies of Superconductive Proximity Effects in a Two-Phase Ti—Fe (7.5 at. %) Alloy....Pages 403-407
Heat Capacity of Rubidium Tungsten Bronze....Pages 408-410
Specific Heat, Optical, and Transport Properties of Hexagonal Tungsten Bronzes....Pages 411-415
High-Transition-Temperature Ternary Superconductors....Pages 416-416
Layered Compounds, Intercalation, and Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements....Pages 417-427
Fluctuation Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Superconducting Layered Compounds....Pages 428-432
Studies of the Properties of the System TaS 2−x Se x ....Pages 433-437
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Layered Diselenides....Pages 438-441
Microwave Properties of Superconducting Intercalated 2 H -TaS 2 ....Pages 442-445
The Influence of the Limits of Phase Stability and Atomic Order on Superconductivity of Binary and Ternary A15-Type Compounds....Pages 446-456
The Importance of the Transition Metal Volume in A15 Superconductors....Pages 457-460
 T c Studies of Nb—Ga Binary and Ternary Compounds....Pages 461-464
Synthesis of Low-Temperature Stable Superconducting A15 Compounds in the Niobium System....Pages 465-467
Studies of Superconducting Nb 3 A x B 1 − x Alloys....Pages 468-471
Low-Temperature Heat Capacity of Nb 3 Sn....Pages 472-474
Superconductivity in the Alloy System V 3 Ga x Si 1 − x ....Pages 475-479
Superconducting Properties of A15 Phase V—Ir Alloys....Pages 480-484
Superconducting Properties of Some Vanadium-Rich Titanium—Vanadium Alloy Thin Films....Pages 485-489
Superconductivity of Lutetium at Very High Pressure: Implications with Respect to the Superconductivity of Lanthanum....Pages 490-494
Superconductivity of Hafnium and the Dependence of T c on Pressure....Pages 495-497
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Superconducting Properties of Iridium....Pages 498-502
The Effect of Stress on the Magnetic Superconducting Transitions of Tin Whiskers....Pages 503-506
The Strain Dependence of T c in Sn and In Alloy Whiskers....Pages 507-509
The Effect of Size and Surface on the Specific Heat of Small Metal Particles....Pages 510-514
Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Cesium....Pages 515-516
The Influence of Dissolved Hydrogen on the Superconducting Properties of Molybdenum....Pages 517-522
Low-Temperature Neutron Irradiation Effects in Superconducting Technetium and Niobium....Pages 523-527
The Superconductivity of Elastically Strained Tin Whiskers Near T c (ε) : A Second-Order Phase Transition with Two Degrees of Freedom....Pages 528-531
Experimental Evidence for an Atomic-like Parameter Characterizing the Systematics of Superconductivity in the Transition Metals....Pages 532-536
Modification of Surface Mode Frequencies and Superconductivity T c by Adsorbed Layers....Pages 537-542
Effect of Surface Charge on the Superconductivity of Vanadium Films....Pages 543-546
Carrier Concentration and the Superconductivity of Beryllium Films....Pages 547-551
The Upper Critical Field and the Density of States in Amorphous Superconductors....Pages 552-557
Superconductivity and Metastability in Alloys of the Mo—Re System....Pages 558-562
Superconducting Properties of Crystalline Films of Aluminum on Silicon....Pages 563-567
Granular Refractory Superconductors....Pages 568-572
Structural and Superconducting Properties of Granular Aluminum Films....Pages 573-577
Electron Localization in Granular Metals....Pages 578-583
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
Strong Coupling Superconductivity....Pages 587-598
Phonon Spectrum of La....Pages 599-602
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
A Simple Experiment for the Determination of the BCS Parameter in Normal Metals....Pages 603-606
Variations of Cutoff Phonon Frequencies in Strong-Coupling Superconductors....Pages 607-610
The Electron—Phonon Enhancement Factor for Some Transition Metals....Pages 611-614
Neutron Scattering, Phonon Spectra, and Superconductivity....Pages 615-618
Superconductivity and Anomalous Phonon Dispersion in TaC....Pages 619-622
Soft Transverse Phonons in an Amorphous Metal....Pages 623-626
Lattice Structure and Instabilities and Electron—Phonon Coupling in Superconductors with High Transition Temperatures....Pages 627-630
Front Matter....Pages 631-631
One-Dimensional Superconductivity in Bismuth Films....Pages 633-637
Evidence for Magnetic-Field-Induced Reduction of the Fluctuation Dimensionality in Bulk Type II Superconductors Just Above the Upper Critical Field H c2 ....Pages 638-641
Fluctuation Conductivity of Superconductors....Pages 642-648
Critical Fluctuation Behavior in the Resistive Transition of Superconducting Bi Films....Pages 649-653
A Study of Fluctuation Effects on Resistive Transition to Superconductivity in Thin Indium Films....Pages 654-658
Fluctuation Effects in the AC Impedance of One-Dimensional Superconductors....Pages 659-663
Functional Integral Method for Superconducting Critical Phenomena....Pages 664-668
Isothermal Superconducting Transitions in Milligauss Fields....Pages 669-672
Fluctuation-Induced Diamagnetism above T c in Al and Al—Ag Alloys....Pages 673-676
Fluctuation-Induced Diamagnetism in Bulk Al and Al Alloys above the Superconducting Transition Temperature....Pages 677-681
Thermodynamic Fluctuations in “Zero-Dimensional” Superconductors....Pages 682-686
Size Effects in the Fluctuation Diamagnetic Susceptibility of Indium Powders above T c ....Pages 687-691
Fluctuations in a Small Superconducting Grain....Pages 692-695
Front Matter....Pages 631-631
Coherent Behavior in Josephson Junction Arrays....Pages 696-700
Instabilities in the Voltage—Current Characteristics of Current-Carrying One-Dimensional Superconductors....Pages 701-704
Intrinsic Fluctuations in a Superconducting “Flux Detector” Ring Closed by a Josephson Junction: Theory and Experiment....Pages 705-708
The Pair-Field Susceptibility of Superconductors....Pages 709-714
Front Matter....Pages 715-715
High-Resolution Magnetooptical Experiments on Magnetic Structures in Superconductors....Pages 717-727
Growth and Current-Induced Motion of the Landau Domain Structure....Pages 728-728
Investigation of Possibilities for Raising the Critical Temperature of Superconductors....Pages 729-734
Resistance of Superconducting Alloys Near T c as Caused by Vortex Structure Motion....Pages 735-739
The Anisotropy of the Static Magnetic Field Penetration Depth in Superconducting Tin....Pages 740-744
Ultrasonic Attenuation in Superconducting Indium and Indium—Tin Alloys....Pages 745-749
Low-Temperature Anomalies in Pure Niobium Studied Ultrasonically....Pages 750-755
Ultrasonic Absorption in Superconducting Single Crystals of Nb 1 − x Mo x ....Pages 756-759
The Volume Change at the Superconducting Transition of Lead and Aluminum above 0.3°K....Pages 760-762
Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation in Impure Superconducting Indium....Pages 763-766
Electronic Part of the Thermal Conductivity of a Thin, Superconducting Film Composed of Lead and Gadolinium....Pages 767-771
Thermoelectrostatic Effects in Superconductors....Pages 772-776
Structure of Superconductors with Dilute Magnetic Impurities....Pages 777-780
Bose Condensation in Superconductors and Liquid 4 He....Pages 781-784
Enhanced Plasticity in the Superconducting State....Pages 785-789
Relation between Superconducting Energy Gaps and Critical Magnetic Fields....Pages 790-793
Front Matter....Pages 715-715
Theory of Superconductors with Spatially Varying Order Parameter....Pages 794-797
Observation of Pair—Quasiparticle Potential Difference in Non-equilibrium Superconductors....Pages 798-798
Electric Potential Near a Superconducting Boundary....Pages 799-803
Back Matter....Pages 805-834