The electrical conductivity of hafnium (Hf)-doped YBa2Cu3O[Formula: see text] ceramics is investigated. Hf doping has been revealed to lead to an increase of the number of effective scattering centers for the normal charge carriers. In a broad temperature range, the excess conductivity of the investigated samples obeys an exponential temperature dependence, while near [Formula: see text] it is satisfactorily described by the Aslamazov–Larkin model. Meanwhile, Hf doping has been shown to lead to a notable broadening of the temperature range for the manifestation of the pseudogap anomaly in the [Formula: see text]-plane.
In the present study, we investigate the influence of the hafnium (Hf) impurities on the magnetoresistance of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ ceramic samples in the temperature interval of the transition to the superconducting state in constant magnetic field up to 12 T. The cause of the appearance of low-temperature "tails" (paracoherent transitions) on the resistive transitions, corresponding to different phase regimes of the vortex matter state is discussed. At temperatures higher than the critical temperature (T > T c ), the temperature dependence of the excess paraconductivity can be described within the Aslamazov-Larkin theoretical model of the fluctuation conductivity for layered superconductors.
Plastic-flow instability in the form of low-amplitude 10−2–10−1MPa aperiodic jumps of the deforming stress has been observed and investigated during the deformation of polycrystals of the alloys Pb–(20–55)at.%In in the superconducting state. The amplitude and number of stress jumps were studied as a function of the state of the metal (normal or superconducting) and the degree of distortion of the crystal lattice as a result of intrinsic and extrinsic defects. Possible mechanisms for in the low-amplitude jump-like deformation of the alloy are discussed.
We investigated numerically IV-characteristics and power of emission from stacks with various quantities of long Josephson junctions (up to 6 junctions) which interacted inductively with each other. Parameters of junctions were chosen close to those for MoRe-Si(W)-MoRe heterostructures. We set Gaussian spread of about 0.01% of critical currents along junctions. Electrical properties of a stack consisted of three junctions was investigated in details. Zero-fi eld steps at voltages corresponding to frequencies of various modes of electromagnetic waves in the stack were found in the IV-characteristic. We showed that positions of zero-fi eld steps in IV-curves were in good agreement with predictions of the theory. The highest maximum of power of emission corresponded to the so-called in-phase mode at which all voltages over junctions in the stack oscillate in-phase. Considering stacks with many junctions, we showed that power of emission at the voltage of the resonance which corresponds to the in-phase mode is proportional to the square of quantity of long junctions in the stack that is the characteristic of coherent emission.
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