Proximity effects in superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures

AI Buzdin - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
The proximity effect at superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces produces damped oscillatory
behavior of the Cooper pair wave function within the ferromagnetic medium. This is …

Inhomogeneous superconductivity in condensed matter and QCD

R Casalbuoni, G Nardulli - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2004 - APS
Inhomogeneous superconductivity arises when the species participating in the pairing
phenomenon have different Fermi surfaces with a large enough separation. In these …

Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state in heavy fermion superconductors

Y Matsuda, H Shimahara - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2007 - journals.jps.jp
The Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state is a novel superconducting state in a
strong magnetic field characterized by the formation of Cooper pairs with nonzero total …

Organic and molecular magnets

SJ Blundell, FL Pratt - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Historically most materials in magnetic applications are based on inorganic materials.
Recently, however, organic and molecular materials have begun to show increasing …

Toward systematic understanding of diversity of electronic properties in low-dimensional molecular solids

H Seo, C Hotta, H Fukuyama - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Solids exhibit a variety of electronic properties such as elastic, magnetic, thermodynamic,
transport properties, etc. Above all, the difference between insulating and metallic properties …

Organic metals and superconductors based on BETS (BETS= bis (ethylenedithio) tetraselenafulvalene)

H Kobayashi, HB Cui, A Kobayashi - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of the first organic superconductors (TMTSF) 2X (TMTSF)
tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene (see Figure 1); X) PF6, ClO4,...) about a quarter century ago …

Inhomogeneous stripe phase revisited for surface superconductivity

V Barzykin, LP Gor'kov - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
We consider 2D surface superconductivity in high magnetic fields parallel to the surface. We
demonstrate that the spin-orbit interaction at the surface changes the properties of the …

Vortex Dynamics and the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State<? format?> in a Magnetic-Field-Induced Organic Superconductor

S Uji, T Terashima, M Nishimura, Y Takahide… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
Under special conditions, a superconducting state where the order parameter oscillates in
real space, the so-called FFLO state, is theoretically predicted to exist near the upper critical …

Recent topics of organic superconductors

A Ardavan, S Brown, S Kagoshima… - Journal of the Physical …, 2011 - journals.jps.jp
Recent developments in research into superconductivity in organic materials are reviewed.
In the epoch-defining quasi-one-dimensional TMTSF superconductors with T c∼ 1 K, T c …

Magnetic field–temperature phase diagram of the quasi-two-dimensional organic superconductor studied via thermal conductivity

MA Tanatar, T Ishiguro, H Tanaka, H Kobayashi - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The thermal conductivity κ of the quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) organic superconductor
λ−(BETS) 2 GaCl 4 [BETS= bis (ethylenedithio) tetraselenfulvalene] was studied in the …