Abstract
FOR specimens of superconductors the resistance as a function of temperature or magnetic field is of the form shown in Fig. 11–3. Baldwin2, using thin-film specimens, has shown that minor loops of the type shown dotted can be followed and the cycle can be halted at any point, so that there must be stable or metastable states corresponding to all points on the curves. Faber4 has shown that superheating effects are small and non-reproducible. This communication proposes a cell model which gives a simple qualitative explanation of these results.
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BRICE, J. Hysteresis and Grain Size Effects in the Superconducting Phase Transition. Nature 205, 1096 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051096a0
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