Studies of High Temperature Superconductors, Volume 29Anant Narlikar Six papers by physicists from the Japan, India, Brazil and the US address some of the broad frontal issues of superconductivity, which include the mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity, extra-high-temperature phenomena, the normal state pseudogap, the observations of the isotope effect in a host of different superconducting systems and their explanations, and the unusual features of strongly correlated electron systems like heavy fermions. Two extended papers explore the importance of positron annihilation and using electron spin resonance techniques to study superconducting materials. The treatments should be accessible to working scientists and engineers and to graduate students of physics, chemistry, materials science, solid-state electronics, and other disciplines. |
Contents
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High Tc superconductivity mechanism | 109 |
Comparison with other theories | 115 |
Pseudogap origin and consequences | 118 |
Conclusion | 127 |
Appendix | 129 |
References | 132 |
Probing HTSC by Positron Lifetime and Doppler Broadening Investigations | 139 |
Probing solids with positrons | 141 |
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Experimental observations | 26 |
Theoretical studies | 30 |
Conclusions | 45 |
References | 46 |
NMR Study of Strongly Correlated Superconductors Heavy Fermion High Tc and Related Materials | 51 |
Mechanism of the superconductivity in the highTc cuprate | 75 |
Spin gap in highTc superconductors | 89 |
Hole distribution | 93 |
Conclusion | 96 |
References | 98 |
Spin Glass Freezing and Mechanism of High Tc Superconductivity | 105 |
Spin glass cluster phase transition | 106 |
Positron annihilation in HTSC and conventional Superconductors | 148 |
Early positron probing of HTSC samples | 149 |
Current experiments on positron lifetime across the superconducting transition | 157 |
Current observations of S vs T minima in the Tcregion | 166 |
Conclusions and future directions | 172 |
References | 175 |
ESR in Metals and Superconductors | 179 |
Theory of ESR linewidths in metals | 182 |
Relevant models for superconductivity | 188 |
Pseudometallic systems | 191 |
Metals and alloys | 194 |
Superconductors | 199 |
Spin dynamics of high temperature superconductors | 210 |
Conclusions | 229 |
Subject Index | 235 |
Common terms and phrases
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