Superconductivity in iron compounds

GR Stewart - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Kamihara and coworkers' report of superconductivity at T c= 26 K in fluorine-doped
LaFeAsO inspired a worldwide effort to understand the nature of the superconductivity in this …

The superconducting phases of

R Joynt, L Taillefer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2002 - APS
The heavy-fermion compound UPt 3 is the first compelling example of a superconductor with
an order parameter of unconventional symmetry. To this day, it is the only unambiguous …

μSR studies of the vortex state in type-II superconductors

JE Sonier, JH Brewer, RF Kiefl - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2000 - APS
The authors present a review of recent muon spin rotation (μSR) studies of the vortex state in
type-II superconductors. There are significant gaps in our understanding of this unusual …

Heat Conduction in the Vortex State of : Evidence for Multiband Superconductivity

E Boaknin, MA Tanatar, J Paglione, D Hawthorn… - Physical Review Letters, 2003 - APS
The thermal conductivity κ of the layered s-wave superconductor N b S e 2 was measured
down to T c/100 throughout the vortex state. With increasing field, we identify two regimes …

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 …

Superconductivity in the A15 structure

GR Stewart - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
The cubic A15 structure metals, with over 60 distinct member compounds, held the crown of
highest T c superconductor starting in 1954 with the discovery of T c= 18 K in Nb 3 Sn. T c …

Order Parameter of : A Fully Gapped Superconductor

HD Yang, JY Lin, HH Li, FH Hsu, CJ Liu, SC Li, RC Yu… - Physical review …, 2001 - APS
We have measured the low-temperature specific heat C (T) for polycrystalline MgB 2
prepared by high pressure synthesis. C (T) below 10 K vanishes exponentially, which …

Low-energy quasiparticles in high-T c cuprates

NE Hussey - Advances in Physics, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this review is to summarize existing experimental investigations on the nature of
the low-energy quasiparticle excitations in high-T c cuprates, and to examine critically recent …

: A Fully Gapped Strong-Coupling Superconductor

H Elsinger, J Wosnitza, S Wanka, J Hagel… - Physical Review Letters, 2000 - APS
High-resolution specific-heat measurements of the organic superconductor κ−(BEDT− TTF)
2− Cu [N (CN) 2] Br in the superconducting (B= 0) and normal (B= 14 T) states show a …

Direct observation and anisotropy of the contribution of gap nodes in the low-temperature specific heat of

Y Wang, B Revaz, A Erb, A Junod - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
The specific heat due to line nodes in the superconducting gap of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 has been
blurred up to now by magnetic terms of extrinsic origin, even for high-quality crystals. We …