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Superconductivity

超导性

If mercury is cooled below 4.1 K, it loses all electric resistance. This discovery of superconductivity by H. Kammerlingh Onnes in 1911 was followed by the observation of other metals which exhibit zero resistivity below a certain critical temperature. The fact that the resistance is zero has been demonstrated by sustaining currents in superconducting lead rings for many years with no measurable reduction. An induced current in an ordinary metal ring would decay rapidly from the dissipation of ordinary resistance, but superconducting rings had exhibited a decay constant of over a billion years!

如果水银被冷却到4.1 K以下,它将失去所有电电阻。1911年,H. Kammerlingh Onnes发现超导性,这一发现随后观察到其他金属在一定临界温度以下表现出零电阻性。零电阻的事实已通过在超导铅环中维持电流多年而得到证实,没有可测量的电阻减少。在普通金属环中,感应电流会因普通电阻的耗散而迅速衰减,但超导环却表现出超过十亿年的衰减常数!

One of the properties of a superconductor is that it will exclude magnetic fields, a phenomenon called the Meissner effect.

超导体的一个特性是它会排斥磁场,这种现象称为迈斯纳效应。

The disappearance of electrical resistivity was modeled in terms of electron pairing in the crystal lattice by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer in what is commonly called the BCS theory.

约翰·巴里顿、伦·科珀和罗伯特·施里弗用晶体晶格中的电子成对来解释电导率的消失,这一理论通常称为BCS理论。

A new era in the study of superconductivity began in 1986 with the discovery of high critical temperature superconductors.

超导性研究进入了一个新时代,这一新时代始于1986年高温超导体的发现。
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Critical Temperature for Superconductors

超导体的临界温度

The critical temperature for superconductors is the temperature at which the electrical resistivity of a metal drops to zero. The transition is so sudden and complete that it appears to be a transition to a different phase of matter; this superconducting phase is described by the BCS theory. Several materials exhibit superconducting phase transitions at low temperatures. The highest critical temperature was about 23 K until the discovery in 1986 of some high temperature superconductors.

超导体的临界温度是金属的电阻率降至零的温度。这种转变如此突然且彻底,似乎是一种物质不同相的转变;这种超导相由BCS理论描述。几种材料在低温下表现出超导相变。直到1986年发现一些高温超导体之前,最高临界温度约为23 K。

Materials with critical temperatures in the range 120 K have received a great deal of attention because they can be maintained in the superconducting state with liquid nitrogen (77 K).

临界温度在120 K范围内的材料受到广泛关注,因为它们可以在液氮(77 K)环境下保持超导态。
Material
材料
Tc
Gallium
镓
1.1K
Aluminum
铝
1.2 K
Indium
铟
3.4 K
Tin
锡
3.7 K
Mercury
水星
4.2
Lead
铅
7.2 K
Niobium
铌
9.3 K
La-Ba-Cu-oxide
La-Ba-Cu-oxide(专名或术语)
17.9 K
Y-Ba-Cu-oxide
Y-Ba-Cu-oxide(专名或术语)
92 K
Tl-Ba-Cu-oxide
Tl-Ba-Cu-氧化物
125 K


Type I superconductors
I型超导体
Type II superconductors
II型超导体
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Superconductivity concepts

Reference Rohlf,Ch 15
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Types I and II Superconductors

I型和II型超导体

There are thirty pure metals which exhibit zero resistivity at low temperatures and have the property of excluding magnetic fields from the interior of the superconductor (Meissner effect). They are called Type I superconductors. The superconductivity exists only below their critical temperatures and below a critical magnetic field strength. Type I superconductors are well described by the BCS theory.

有三十种纯金属在低温下表现出零电阻,并具有将磁场排斥出超导体(迈斯纳效应)的性质。它们被称为一类超导体。超导性仅在它们的临界温度和临界磁场强度以下存在。一类超导体 well described by the BCS theory.

Starting in 1930 with lead-bismuth alloys, a number of alloys were found which exhibited superconductivity; they are called Type II superconductors. They were found to have much higher critical fields and therefore could carry much higher current densities while remaining in the superconducting state.

从1930年开始,以铅-铋合金为起点,人们发现了一些表现出超导性的合金;这些被称为II型超导体。它们被发现具有更高的临界磁场,因此在保持超导状态的同时可以承载更高的电流密度。

The variations on barium-copper-oxide ceramics which achieved the superconducting state at much higher temperatures are often just referred to as high temperature superconductors and form a class of their own.

在较高温度下实现超导态的钡铜氧化物陶瓷的变种通常被称为高温超导体,属于一个独立的类别。
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Type I Superconductors

一类超导体

The 27 pure metals listed in the table below are called Type I superconductors. The identifying characteristics are zero electrical resistivity below a critical temperature, zero internal magnetic field (Meissner effect), and a critical magnetic field above which superconductivity ceases.

表下面列出的27种纯金属被称为Ⅰ型超导体。其特征是临界温度以下的电阻率为零,内部磁场为零(迈斯纳效应),以及当磁场超过临界磁场时超导性将消失。

The superconductivity in Type I superconductors is modeled well by the BCS theory which relies upon electron pairs coupled by lattice vibration interactions. Remarkably, the best conductors at room temperature (gold, silver, and copper) do not become superconducting at all. They have the smallest lattice vibrations, so their behavior correlates well with the BCS Theory.

一型超导体的超导性可以用BCS理论很好地加以解释,该理论依赖于电子通过晶格振动相互作用而形成对。令人惊讶的是,室温下最好的导体(金、银和铜)根本不会表现出超导性。它们的晶格振动最小,因此其行为与BCS理论相吻合。

While instructive for understanding superconductivity, the Type I superconductors have been of limited practical usefulness because the critical magnetic fields are so small and the superconducting state disappears suddenly at that temperature. Type I superconductors are sometimes called "soft" superconductors while the Type II are "hard", maintaining the superconducting state to higher temperatures and magnetic fields.

尽管有助于理解超导性,但I型超导体由于临界磁场很小,且在该温度下超导态突然消失,因此在实际应用中实用性有限。I型超导体有时被称为“软”超导体,而II型则被称为“硬”超导体,能够在更高的温度和磁场下维持超导态。
Mat.
矩阵
Tc (K)
Rh 0
W 0.015
Be**
贝**
0.026
Ir 0.1
Lu
卢
0.1
Hf 0.1
Ru
鲁
0.5
Os 0.7
Mo
摩
0.92
Zr 0.546
Cd 0.56
U 0.2
Ti 0.39
Zn 0.85
Ga 1.083
Mat.
矩阵
Tc (K)
Gd* 1.1
Al 1.2
Pa
帕
1.4
Th 1.4
Re 1.4
Tl 2.39
In
在
3.408
Sn 3.722
Hg
水银
4.153
Ta
塔
4.47
La 6.00
Pb 7.193

*Gd at Tc=1.1 is questionable. Source is Rohlf, Ch 15, but this may be a misprint. Ga has Tc about 1.1, so Ga value may have been attributed to Gd.

*Gd 在 Tc =1.1 时的值存疑。来源是 Rohlf 第15章,但可能为笔误。Ga 的 Tc 约为 1.1,因此可能将 Ga 的值误归于 Gd。

**"Superconductivity of Hexagonal Beryllium'" R.L. Falge Jr., Physics Letters A 24 1967.
Note also the three metals at right which were formerly included as Type I superconductors in the above table, but have been shown to exhibit Type II properties.
请注意右侧的三种金属,它们曾被包含在上述表格中作为I型超导体,但已被证明表现出II型特性。
Mat.
矩阵
Tc
V 5.38
Tc 7.77
Nb 9.46

Type I superconductors on periodic table
元素周期表中的Ⅰ型超导体

六方氧化铍的超导性' R.L. Falge Jr., Physics Letters A 24 1967.
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Superconductivity concepts

Reference
Rohlf
Ch 15
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Type II Superconductors

II型超导体

Superconductors made from alloys are called Type II superconductors. Besides being mechanically harder than Type I superconductors, they exhibit much higher critical magnetic fields. Type II superconductors such as niobium-titanium (NbTi) are used in the construction of high field superconducting magnets.

由合金制成的超导体称为II型超导体。除了比I型超导体更坚硬外,它们还表现出更高的临界磁场。例如铌钛(NbTi)这样的II型超导体被用于制造高性能的超导磁体。

Type-II superconductors usually exist in a mixed state of normal and superconducting regions. This is sometimes called a vortex state, because vortices of superconducting currents surround filaments or cores of normal material.

Data from Blatt, Modern Physics

Blatt 的《现代物理》数据
II型超导体通常存在于正常区域和超导区域共存的混合态中。这种状态有时被称为涡旋态,因为超导电流的涡旋围绕着正常材料的丝状或核心区域。
Material
材料
Transition
Temp (K)
转变温度(K)
Critical
Field (T)
临界磁场(T)
NbTi
10
15
PbMoS
14.4
6.0
V3Ga
14.8
2.1
NbN
15.7
1.5
V3Si
16.9
2.35
Nb3Sn
Nb₃Sn
18.0
24.5
Nb3Al
Nb₃Al
18.7
32.4
Nb3(AlGe)
Nb₃(AlGe)
20.7
44
Nb3Ge
Nb₃Ge
23.2
38

New superconductor: magnesium diboride
新超导体:镁二硼化物
Superconducting plutonium compound
超导钚化合物
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Reference:
Blatt, Modern Physics
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