Positive Isotope Effect on the Superconducting Transition Temperature of $α$ -Uranium

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16 October 1967

journal article
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Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 19 (16) , 892-895
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.19.892

Abstract

We have discovered a positive isotope effect in superconductors. The relation between the transition temperatures of

U^{235}

and

U^{238}

can be described by

T \sim M^{2}

.

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