Ebook: New Trends in Superconductivity

New Trends in Superconductivity contains up-to-date papers covering the most exciting current topics in superconductivity research. The main areas include cuprate superconductivity, covering mechanisms, pairing symmetry, pseudogap, stripes, growth and synthesis; novel superconductors, including MgB2, Sr2RuO4, borocarbides and C60-based systems; and mesoscopic superconductors and vortex matter, including vortex structure, type II superconductors, macroscopic quantum coherence and qubit devices and multilayer systems.

A useful, up-to-date reference of current research in all of these rapidly developing fields of superconductivity.

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New Trends in Superconductivity contains up-to-date papers covering the most exciting current topics in superconductivity research. The main areas include cuprate superconductivity, covering mechanisms, pairing symmetry, pseudogap, stripes, growth and synthesis; novel superconductors, including MgB2, Sr2RuO4, borocarbides and C60-based systems; and mesoscopic superconductors and vortex matter, including vortex structure, type II superconductors, macroscopic quantum coherence and qubit devices and multilayer systems.

A useful, up-to-date reference of current research in all of these rapidly developing fields of superconductivity.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Growth and Doping of MBE Prepared Cuprate Films....Pages 3-17
Exchange and Spin-Fluctuation Pairing in the Two-Band Hubbard Model....Pages 19-28
High Temperature Superconductors in High Frequency Fields....Pages 29-38
Charge- and Spin-Density-Wave Superconductors: Pseudogap Puzzle in the Cuprates....Pages 39-50
Strong-Coupling Superconductivity with D-Wave Order Parameter and S-Wave Gap....Pages 51-60
Theory of BSCCO Bicrystal C-Axis Twist Josephson Junctions: A New Phase-Sensitive Test of Order Parameter Symmetry....Pages 61-70
Time Reversal Breaking States and Spontaneous Current Pattern in Josephson Junctions of D-Wave Superconductors....Pages 71-83
Electronic Thermal Conductivity of Partially-Gapped CDW Superconductors....Pages 85-94
Peculiarities of the Spectrum of Strongly Correlated Electrons....Pages 95-104
Pair-Transfer Superconductivity on Doping Determined Bands and the Pseudogap....Pages 105-113
Many-Band Effects in Superconductivity....Pages 115-124
Study on Electronic Specific Heat of LA2-xSRxCUO4; Pseudogap and Superconductivity....Pages 125-136
High Spin Paramagnetic Centers in Tetragonal Phase of Er123, Dy123, and (Er,Y)123 Compounds....Pages 137-153
EPR Study of Spin Clusters in Oxygen Deficient R123 Compounds....Pages 155-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-176
Superconductivity in Pure and Electron-Doped MgB2: Transport Properties and Pressure Effects....Pages 177-188
Superconducting Gap and Electron-Phonon Interaction in MgB2 Thin Film Studied by Point Contacts....Pages 189-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-209
A Two-Band Approach to MgB2 Superconductivity....Pages 211-211
Specific heat and disorder in the mixed state of non- magnetic borocarbides and a comparison with exotic superconductors....Pages 213-224
On The Influence of a Non-Local Electrodynamics in the Irreversible Magnetization of Non-Magnetic Borocarbides....Pages 225-234
Spontaneous Spin Polarization and Electronic States in Platinum Nano-Particle....Pages 211-211
Calculation of Correlation Functions for Superconductivity Models....Pages 235-243
Theoretical Analysis of the Symmetry of the Order Parameter in Unconventional Superconductors: Singlet Versus Triplet Pairing....Pages 245-254
High-Temperature Superconductivity of Semi-Localized 2D Electron System with Circular Molecular Orbits....Pages 255-265
Two-Particle Green Function in the Theory of Superconductivity of HTSC and C60 Crystals....Pages 267-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-291
Vortex Structure in Mesoscopic Superconductors....Pages 293-305
Quantum Measurements of Charge and Flux Qubits....Pages 307-316
Nanostructured Superconductor/Ferromagnet Bilayers....Pages 317-327
Half-Integer Number Vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau-Higgs Model....Pages 329-339
The Hydrodynamic Instability in the Vortex-Anti-Vortex System....Pages 341-341
Magnetization of Type-II Superconductors. Variational Wigner-Seitz Approximation....Pages 343-352
Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Cylinders....Pages 353-363
Study of Decoherence Time of Electronic States in Quantum Dots, Josephson Junctions and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect “Pseudo-Spin” Quantum Computing Devices....Pages 365-373
Back Matter....Pages 375-384
....Pages 385-393