scholarly journals Electronic and fluctuation dynamics following a quench to the superconducting phase

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Stahl ◽  
Martin Eckstein
Keyword(s):  
Superconducting Phase ◽  
Fluctuation Dynamics

Secondary electron imaging of YBa2Cu3O7-x high-Tc superconductors in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 684-685
Author(s):  
D. R. Liu ◽  
D. B. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽  
Superconducting Phase ◽  
Contrast Imaging ◽  
High Tc ◽  
Bright Contrast ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Electron Imaging

The secondary electron imaging technique in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been used first by Millman et al. in 1987 to distinguish between the superconducting phase and the non-superconducting phase of the YBa2Cu3O7-x superconductors. They observed that, if the sample was cooled down below the transition temperature Tc and imaged with secondary electrons, some regions in the image would show dark contrast whereas others show bright contrast. In general, the contrast variation of a SEM image is the variation of the secondary electron yield over a specimen, which in turn results from the change of topography and conductivity over the specimen. Nevertheless, Millman et al. were able to demonstrate with their experimental results that the dominant contrast mechanism should be the conductivity variation and that the regions of dark contrast were the superconducting phase whereas the regions of bright contrast were the non-superconducting phase, because the latter was a poor conductor and consequently, the charge building-up resulted in high secondary electron emission. This observation has since aroused much interest amoung the people in electron microscopy and high Tc superconductivity. The present paper is the preliminary report of our attempt to carry out the secondary electron imaging of this material in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) rather than in a SEM. The advantage of performing secondary electron imaging in a TEM is obvious that, in a TEM, the spatial resolution is higher and many more complementary techniques, e.g, diffraction contrast imaging, phase contrast imaging, electron diffraction and various microanalysis techniques, are available.

On the theory of the superconducting phase in organic conductors

1986 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Brazovskii ◽  
V. Yakovenko
Keyword(s):  
Organic Conductors ◽  
Superconducting Phase

STABLE hc/e VORTICES IN SUPERCONDUCTORS WITH SPIN-CHARGE SEPARATION

1992 ◽  
Vol 06 (05n06) ◽  
pp. 509-526
Author(s):  
Subir Sachdev
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Flux ◽  
Normal State ◽  
Phenomenological Model ◽  
Charge Separation ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
Superconducting Phase ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Large N ◽  
Normal State Properties

A phenomenological model, F, of the superconducting phase of systems with spin-charge separation and antiferromagnetically induced pairing is studied. Above Hc1, magnetic flux can always pierce the superconductor in vortices with flux hc/2e, but regimes are found in which vortices with flux hc/e are preferred. Little-Park and other experiments, which examine periodicities with a varying magnetic field, always observe a period of hc/2e. The low energy properties of a symplectic large-N expansion of a model of the cuprate superconductors are argued to be well described by F. This analysis and some normal state properties of the cuprates suggest that hc/e vortices should be stable at the lowest dopings away from the insulating state at which superconductivity first occurs.

scholarly journals Superconducting Order Parameter Nucleation and Critical Currents in the Presence of Weak Stray Fields in Superconductor/Insulator/Ferromagnet Hybrids

Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 507
Author(s):  
Vasiliy N. Kushnir ◽  
Serghej L. Prischepa ◽  
Michela Trezza ◽  
Carla Cirillo ◽  
Carmine Attanasio
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Theory ◽  
Critical Currents ◽  
Superconducting Phase ◽  
Stray Field ◽  
Superconducting Properties ◽  
Ginzburg Landau ◽  
Ferromagnetic Layers ◽  
Linearized System ◽  
Critical Current Density Jc ◽  
Usadel Equations

The stray fields produced by ferromagnetic layers in Superconductor/Insulator/Ferromagnet (S/I/F) heterostructures may strongly influence their superconducting properties. Suitable magnetic configurations can be exploited to manipulate the main parameters of the hybrids. Here, the nucleation of the superconducting phase in an external magnetic field that periodically oscillates along the film width is studied on the base of the numerical solution of the linearized system of Usadel equations. In addition, the effect of the magnetic configuration of the F-layer on the temperature dependence of the critical current density, Jc(T), is investigated in the framework of the Ginzburg–Landau phenomenological theory on the base of the oscillating model of a stray field. By following this approach, the Jc(T) dependence of a Nb/SiO2/PdNi trilayer is reproduced for different magnetic configurations of the PdNi layer.

scholarly journals Charge density wave and superconducting phase in monolayer InSe

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Alidoosti ◽  
Davoud Nasr Esfahani ◽  
Reza Asgari
Keyword(s):  
Charge Density ◽  
Charge Density Wave ◽  
Density Wave ◽  
Superconducting Phase

scholarly journals Superconducting phase diagram and nontrivial band topology of structurally modulated Sn1−xSbx

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Liu ◽  
Chengcheng Xiao ◽  
Qinqing Zhu ◽  
Jifeng Wu ◽  
Yanwei Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
Superconducting Phase
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