Review of the superconducting properties of MgB2

C Buzea, T Yamashita - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
This review paper illustrates the main normal and superconducting state properties of
magnesium diboride, a material known since the early 1950s but only recently discovered to …

A review of two-band superconductivity: materials and effects on the thermodynamic and reversible mixed-state properties

M Zehetmayer - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Two-band superconductivity has become an important topic over the past ten years.
Extensive experimental and theoretical studies started with MgB 2 and are now focused on …

Temperature and Field Dependence of the Anisotropy of

M Angst, R Puzniak, A Wisniewski, J Jun, SM Kazakov… - Physical review …, 2002 - APS
The anisotropy γ of the superconducting state of high quality single crystals of MgB 2 was
determined, using torque magnetometry with two different methods. The anisotropy of the …

Elaboration of the α-model derived from the BCS theory of superconductivity

DC Johnston - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The single-band α-model of superconductivity (Padamsee et al 1973 J. Low Temp. Phys. 12
387) is a popular model that was adapted from the single-band Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer …

Thermal conductivity of single-crystalline

AV Sologubenko, J Jun, SM Kazakov, J Karpinski… - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The ab-plane thermal conductivity κ of single-crystalline hexagonal MgB 2 has been
measured as a function of magnetic field H with orientations both parallel and perpendicular …

Mixed-state properties of superconducting single crystals

M Zehetmayer, M Eisterer, J Jun, SM Kazakov… - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We report on measurements of the magnetic moment in superconducting MgB 2 single
crystals. We find μ 0 H c 2 c (0)= 3.2 T, μ 0 H c 2 ab (0)= 14.5 T, γ= 4.6, μ 0 H c (0)= 0.28 T …

Multicomponent superconductivity based on multiband superconductors

Y Tanaka - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Multicomponent superconductivity is realized in multiband superconductors when an
interband pairing interaction is considerably weaker than the intraband interactions. There is …

Orbital upper critical field and its anisotropy of clean one-and two-band superconductors

VG Kogan, R Prozorov - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Helfand–Werthamer (HW) scheme (Helfand and Werthamer 1966 Phys. Rev.
147 288; another part of this work published as a separate paper by Werthamer et al 1966 …

Temperature dependence and anisotropy of the bulk upper critical field of

AV Sologubenko, J Jun, SM Kazakov, J Karpinski… - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The bulk upper critical field H c 2 (T) of superconducting MgB 2 and its anisotropy are
established by analyzing experimental data on the temperature and magnetic-field …

Anisotropic s-wave superconductivity in borocarbides and

K Maki, P Thalmeier, H Won - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The symmetry of superconductivity in borocarbides LuNi 2 B 2 C and YNi 2 B 2 C is an
outstanding issue. Here an anisotropic s-wave order parameter (or s+ g model) is proposed …