Physics of Superconducting Transition Temperatures

This paper was written in honor of my friend Ted Geballe's 100th birthday. It concerns the physics of the superconducting Tc. Tc is a dimensional quantity, and so depends on microscopic details of a material making it a strange quantity to consider from the perspective of simple paradigmatic mo...

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Main Author Kivelson, Steven A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 31.07.2019
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Physics - Superconductivity
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DOI10.48550/arxiv.1908.00030

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Summary:This paper was written in honor of my friend Ted Geballe's 100th birthday. It concerns the physics of the superconducting Tc. Tc is a dimensional quantity, and so depends on microscopic details of a material making it a strange quantity to consider from the perspective of simple paradigmatic models or effective field theories. Still, there are certain qualitative lessons that can be learned even from such approaches which may give some insight into the physics of Tc - and where to look for it. Given my friend's relentless interest in this subject, this seems to be a good place to discuss these issues.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1908.00030