Nanoscience and engineering in superconductivity

0355606 - FZÚ 2011 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Lipavský, Pavel - Koláček, Jan - Morawetz, K.
Surface superconductivity controlled by electric field.
Nanoscience and engineering in superconductivity. Berlin: Springer, 2010 - (Moshchalkov, V.; Wördenweber, R.; Lang, W.), s. 281-298. Nanoscience and technology. ISBN 9783642151361
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA202/08/0326
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100521
Keywords : superconductivity at the nanoscale
Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism
http://www.springer.com/physics/condensed+matter+physics/book/978-3-642-15136-1

We discuss an effect of the electrostatic field on superconductivity near the surface. First, we use the microscopic theory of de Gennes to show that the electric field changes the boundary condition for the Ginzburg-Landau function. Second, the effect of the electric field is evaluated in the vicinity of Hc3, where the boundary condition plays a crucial role. We predict that the field effect on the surface superconductivity leads to a discontinuity of the magnetocapacitance. We estimate that the predicted discontinuity is accessible for nowadays experimental tools and materials. It is shown that the magnitude of this discontinuity can be used to predict the dependence of the critical temperature on the charge carrier density which can be tailored by doping.
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