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Despite the intense activity in the year since the discovery of superconductivity in MgB2, key parameters, in particular the upper and lower critical fields Hc2 and Hc1 and their anisotropies, are not well-established, largely because of…
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Multigap superconductivity emerges when superconducting gaps form on distinct Fermi surfaces. Arising from locally overlapping atomic orbitals, multiple superconducting bands introduce a new internal degree of freedom in the material that,…
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We report upper critical field $B_{c2}(T)$ measurements on a single-crystalline sample of the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe. $B_{c2}(0)$ obtained for fields applied along the orthorhombic axes exceeds the Pauli limit for $B \parallel…
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The recent observation of superconducting state at atomic scale has motivated the pursuit of exotic condensed phases in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Here we report on a superconducting phase in two-monolayer crystalline Ga films…
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