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Fluctuation Phenomena in Superconductors

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Fluctuation Phenomena in High Temperature Superconductors

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During the first half of this century after the prominent discovery done by Kamerlingh-Onnes, the problem of fluctuations, smearing the superconducting transition, had not even been taken into account: in bulk samples of traditional superconductors the critical temperature T c sharply divides the superconducting and the normal phases indeed. It is worth mentioning that such a behavior of the physical characteristics of superconductors is in perfect agreement both with the Ginzburg-Landau phenomenological theory (1950) and the BCS microscopic theory of superconductivity (1957) [1]. Nevertheless, in the same time it was well known that thermodynamical fluctuations play an important role in the description of many other phase transitions [2], so-called second order phase transitions, (like the λ-point. in liquid helium) often strongly smeared out by order parameter thermal fluctuations.

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  3. SUPRAS, Institute of Physics, B5, Université de Liège, B- 4000, Liège, Belgium

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Varlamov, A.A., Ausloos, M. (1997). Fluctuation Phenomena in Superconductors. In: Ausloos, M., Varlamov, A.A. (eds) Fluctuation Phenomena in High Temperature Superconductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5536-6_1

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