Superconductors with excess quasiparticles

Journal Article · Sat Jan 31 23:00:00 EST 1981 · Sov. Phys. - Usp. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1070/PU1981v024n02ABEH004631· OSTI ID:5928241

Elesin, V F; Kopaev, Y V

This review presents a systematic kinetic theory of nonequilibrium phenomena in superconductors with excess quasiparticles created by electromagnetic or tunnel injection. The energy distributions of excess quasiparticles and of nonequilibrium phonons, dependence of the order parameter on the power and frequency (or intensity) of the electromagnetic field, magnetic properties of nonequilibrium superconductors, I-V curves of superconductor-insulator-superconductor junctions, and other properties are described in detail. The stability of superconducting states far from thermodynamic equilibrium is investigated and it is shown that characteristic instabilities leading to the formation of nonuniform states of a new type or phase transitions of the first kind are inherent to superconductors with excess quasiparticles. The results are compared with experimental data.

• Research Organization: Engineering-Physics Institute, Moscow and P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR
• OSTI ID: 5928241
• Journal Information: Sov. Phys. - Usp. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Sov. Phys. - Usp. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 24:2; ISSN SOPUA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
ENERGY SPECTRA
ORDER PARAMETERS
PHONONS
QUASI PARTICLES
REVIEWS
SPECTRA
STABILITY
SUPERCONDUCTORS