Diamagnetic Susceptibility at the Transition to the Superconducting State

10 April 1969

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

Vol. 180 (2) , 527-529
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.180.527

Abstract

Fluctuating Cooper pairs contribute to the diamagnetic susceptibility in a superconductor above the critical temperature. The effect is the greatest in a clean metal where the extra susceptibility is about

10^{- 7} \times {[\frac{T_{c}}{(T - T_{c})}]}^{\frac{1}{2}}

in a bulk sample.

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