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Fundamentals and Frontiers of the Josephson Effect pp 339–366Cite as

Pairing Symmetry Effects

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Conventional superconductors, such as the elemental superconductors Al, Pb, Nb, and Sn, are believed to form spin singlet Cooper pairs that have s-wave orbital pairing symmetry. Among the avalanche of papers that followed the announcement of superconductivity at high temperatures in the cuprate perovskites [1, 2] were suggestions, quite early on, that these new superconductors might have unconventional pairing symmetry [3,4,5,6]. Although unusual order parameter pairing symmetries had long been proposed for the heavy-Fermion superconductors [7], the suggestion of unusual pairing symmetry for the cuprates was at first met with considerable resistance.

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Kirtley, J.R. (2019). Pairing Symmetry Effects. In: Tafuri, F. (eds) Fundamentals and Frontiers of the Josephson Effect. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 286. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20726-7_9

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