Ultra low temperature facility - Universität Bayreuth

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 97.0409
• Projekttitel Englisch: Ultra low temperature facility - Universität Bayreuth

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Mesoscopic effects; proximity; superconductivity

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: ERBFMGECT950072

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 4. Frame Research Programme - 10.1 Stimulation of training and mobility

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Partner und Internationale Organisationen (Englisch)

Coordinator: University Bayreuth (D)

Abstract (Englisch)

In this project we investigated the magnetic response of mesoscopic cylinders of a normal metal, Cu, Ag, and Au, in proximity with superconducting niobium in the tempertature range 100 pk>T>9K.
By covering five decades in temperature, we were able to extract the correct temperature dependence of the reentrant induced diamagnetism in these proximity structeres. Over a large mesoscopic regime, the exponential temperature dependence og the paramagnetic susceptibilitzy has the fingerprint of several levels of quantum coherence along integer multiples n = 1, 2, 4 of the cylinder perimeter L. The origin of this puzzoling paramagnetism in mesoscopic NS cylinders is still an open question.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 97.0409