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The electromagnetic properties of superconductors

M. Tinkham

M. Tinkham

  • Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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Rev. Mod. Phys. 46, 587 – Published 1 October, 1974

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.46.587

Abstract

The London-Ginzburg-Landau concept of superconductivity as a macroscopic quantum state is reviewed. Experimental measurements are then discussed of resistance below Tc, and of enhanced diamagnetism above Tc, both caused by thermodynamic fluctuations away from the Ginzburg-Landau state of lowest free energy. Next the limitations on superconductivity at nonzero frequencies are reviewed: normal electron dissipation ∝ω2, and strong absorption above the energy gap frequency. Sum rule arguments relate the superfluid response at low frequencies to the gap; effects of strong electron-phonon coupling are also found. Finally, results of recent work on the resistive state of superconducting filaments above the critical current are summarized.

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