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Effects of Pressure on the Superconducting Transition in Tin

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RECENTLY, Muench1 has investigated the displacement of the critical temperatures T c of tin and indium produced by pressures of up to 100 atmospheres (obtained by compressing helium gas), and by pressure of 1,900 atmospheres (obtained by the ice-expansion bomb technique); and he has measured the value of (ΔH cp)T, where H c denotes the critical magnetic field and p the pressure, at temperatures between 1° K. and T c for each of these metals. These experiment are important in that they provide the most complete data yet obtained on the effects of pressure on the superconducting transition.

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HURST, C. Effects of Pressure on the Superconducting Transition in Tin. Nature 178, 652–653 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178652b0

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