Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Theoretical Study on the Upper Critical Field of a Layered Superconductor NbSe\(_2\)

  • Published:
Journal of Low Temperature Physics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Based on two-band Ginzburg-Landau theory, we study the temperature and angular dependences of the upper critical field for superconducting NbSe\(_2\) crystals. We introduce two variational parameters in our approach, and provide the explicit equations to determine the upper critical field in arbitrary direction. Our analyses strongly support previous scanning tunneling microscopy results and specific heat data, pointing to the existence of two energy gaps in this compound. Our results thus suggest that besides MgB\(_{2}\), NbSe\({_2}\) is another example of two-gap superconductors.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. J. Nagamatsu, N. Nakagawa, T. Muranaka, Y. Zenitani, J. Akimitsu, Nature (London) 410, 63 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. J. Kortus, I.I. Mazin, K.D. Belashchenko, V.P. Antropov, L.L. Boyer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4656 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. J.M. An, W.E. Pickett, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4366 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Y. Kong, O. V. Dolgov, O. Jepsen, O. K. Andersen, Phys. Rev B 64, 020501 (R) (2001).

  5. K.P. Bohnen, R. Heid, B. Renker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5771 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. A.Y. Liu, I.I. Mazin, J. Kortus, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 087005 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. A. Brinkman, A.A. Golubov, H. Rogalla, O.V. Dolgov, J. Kortus, Y. Kong, O. Jepsen, O.K. Andersen, Phys. Rev. B 65, 180517 (2002)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. I. I. Mazin, J. Kortus, Phys. Rev. B 65, 180510 (R) (2002).

  9. F. Giubileo, D. Roditchev, W. Sacks, R. Lamy, D.X. Thanh, J. Klein, S. Miraglia, D. Fruchart, J. Marcus, Ph Monod, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 177008 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. Y. Bugoslavsky, Y. Miyoshi, G.K. Perkins, A.V. Berenov, Z. Lockman, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, L.F. Cohen, A.D. Caplin, H.Y. Zhai, M.P. Paranthaman, H.M. Christen, M. Blamire, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 15, 526 (2002)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. P. Szabó, P. Samuely, J. Kačmarčik, T. Klein, J. Marcus, D. Fruchart, S. Miraglia, C. Marcenat, A.G.M. Jansen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 137005 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. F. Bouquet, R.A. Fisher, N.E. Phillips, D.G. Hinks, J.D. Jorgensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 047001 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  13. J.A. Wilson, F.J. DiSalvo, S. Mahajan, Adv. Phys. 24, 117 (1975)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  14. D. Sanchez, A. Junod, J. Muller, H. Berger, F. Levy, Phys. B 204, 167 (1995)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  15. J.G. Rodrigo, S. Vieira, Phys. C 404, 306 (2004)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  16. C.L. Huang, J.-Y. Lin, Y.T. Chang, C.P. Sun, H.Y. Shen, C.C. Chou, H. Berger, T.K. Lee, H.D. Yang, Phys. Rev. B 76, 212504 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  17. M.E. Zhitomirsky, V.H. Dao, Phys. Rev. B 69, 054508 (2004)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  18. A. Gurevich, Phys. Rev. B 67, 184515 (2003)

    Article  MathSciNet  ADS  Google Scholar 

  19. A. Gurevich, Phys. C 456, 160 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  20. V.H. Dao, M.E. Zhitomirsky, Eur. Phys. J. B 44, 183 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  21. Y. Kong, O.V. Dolgov, O. Jepsen, O.K. Andersen, Phys. Rev. B 64, 020501 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  22. M.D. Johannes, I.I. Mazin, C.A. Howells, Phys. Rev. B 73, 205102 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  23. R.C. Morris, R.V. Coleman, R. Bhandari, Phys. Rev. B 5, 895 (1972)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  24. J. Jaroszynski, F. Hunte, L. Balicas, Y.-J. Jo, I. Raicevic, A. Gurevich, D.C. Larbalestier, F.F. Balakirev, L. Fang, P. Cheng, Y. Jia, H.-H. Wen, Phys. Rev. B 78, 174523 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  25. R.A. Klemm, Layered Superconductors (Oxford University Press, New York, 2012)

    Google Scholar 

  26. M. Tinkham, Introduction to Superconductivity, 2nd edn. (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996)

    Google Scholar 

  27. P.G. de Gennes, Superconductivity of Metals and Alloys (Addison-Wesley, New York, 1966)

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  28. N. Toyota, H. Nakatsuji, K. Noto, A. Hoshi, N. Kobayashi, Y. Muto, Y. Onodera, J. Low, Temp. Phys. 25, 485 (1976)

  29. L.P. Gor’kov, T.K. Melik-Barkhudarov, Soviet Phys. JETP 18, 1031 (1964)

  30. D. R. Tilley, Proc. Phys. Soc. London 85, 1177 (1965)

  31. J.B. Ketterson, S.N. Song, Superconductivity (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1999)

    Book  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. 12ZP11, 13TD03, 2014MS60) and Beijing Higher Education Elite Young Teacher Project.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China

    Hai Huang, Peng Liu, Peng-Li Lv & Ning Li

  2. State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Hai Huang

Authors
  1. Hai Huang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Peng Liu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Peng-Li Lv
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Ning Li
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Hai Huang.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Huang, H., Liu, P., Lv, PL. et al. Theoretical Study on the Upper Critical Field of a Layered Superconductor NbSe\(_2\) . J Low Temp Phys 177, 217–225 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1208-3

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1208-3

Keywords

Search

Navigation