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Theory of Superconductivity Carsten
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Contents 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Scope
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1 Introduction 1.1 Scope Supercondu
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2 Basic experiments In this chapter
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Superconductivity with rather high
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• In 1979, Frank Steglich et al.
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3 Bose-Einstein condensation In thi
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We note the identity g n (y) = ∞
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We find a phase transition at T c ,
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gives a reasonable approximation fo
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We now consider the force F = −eE
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5 Electrodynamics of superconductor
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Thus the supercurrent flows in the
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where φ j is the polar angle of el
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with the penetration depth √ √
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N s is the total number of particle
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6.2 Ginzburg-Landau theory for neut
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scope of this course, though. The i
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As above, we keep only terms up to
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Within the mean-field theories we h
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Including the superconducting contr
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The Gibbs free energy of the domain
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The magnetic flux Φ through this l
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Another useful quantity is the free
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We obtain e −ik yy (− 2 2m ∗
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has a simple interpretation: It is
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This is a Gaussian average since F
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Note that in two dimensions the cur
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Thus the energy is ∫ E 2 = 2E cor
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The energy of an isolated vortex-an
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Next, we have to express Z ′ in t
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quasi−long−range order free vor
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which is valid within the film and
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attraction of the magnetic monopole
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Finally, the voltage measured for a
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In this case it is useful to expand
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It will be useful to write the elec
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(the minus sign is conventional) an
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Note that summing up the more and m
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8.4 Effective interaction between e
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Re RPA, R V eff V c ( ) RPA q 0 Re
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