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Published on: March 24, 2019
Surface superconducting states in a yttrium hexaboride single crystal in a tilted magnetic field
M I Tsindlekht1, V M Genkin, G I Leviev
1The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel.
Abstract:
We present the results of an experimental study of the nucleation of superconductivity at the surface of a single-crystal YB(6) in a tilted dc magnetic field. The developed experimental approach allowed us to measure H(c3) at each side of the sample as a function of the angle between the dc magnetic field and the surface. Experiment showed that the ratio H(c3)/H(c2)≈1.28 when the dc field became perpendicular to the surface while the expected value of this ratio is 1. This sharp distinction with theory cannot be ascribed to the surface roughness.
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