An Inquiry into Two Intriguing Values of the Critical Current Density of Bi-2212
An Inquiry into Two Intriguing Values of the Critical Current Density of Bi-2212作者机构:B-208 Sushant Lok 1 Gurugram India 180 Mall Apartments Delhi India
出 版 物:《World Journal of Condensed Matter Physics》 (凝固态物理国际期刊(英文))
年 卷 期:2021年第11卷第3期
页 面:53-64页
学科分类:080801[工学-电机与电器] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程(可授工学、理学学位)] 080502[工学-材料学]
主 题:Chemical Potential- Temperature- and Applied Magnetic Field-Dependent Critical Current Density of Superconductors Number Density Landau Quantization Law of Equipartition of Energy Bi-2212
摘 要:The empirically reported values of the critical current density (jc) of Bi-2212 as 2.4 × 105 (jc1;Sample 1) and 1.0 × 106 A/cm2 (jc2;Sample 2) are intriguing because both of them correspond to the same values of the temperature T = 4.2 K and the applied magnetic field H = 12 × 104 G. This difference is conventionally attributed to such factors—not all of which are quantifiable—as the geometry, dimensions and the nature of dopants and the manners of preparation of the samples which cause their granular structures, grain boundaries, alignment of the grains and so on to differ. Based on the premise that the chemical potential μ subsumes most of these features, given herein is a novel explanation of the said results in terms of the values of μ of the two samples. This paper revisits the problem that was originally addressed in [Malik G.P., Varma V.S. (2020) WJCMP, 10, 53-70] in the more accurate framework of a subsequent paper [Malik G.P., Varma V.S. (2021) JSNM, 34, 1551-1561]. Besides, it distinguishes between the contributions of the electro-electron (e-e) and the hole-hole (h-h) pairs to jc—a feature to which no heed was paid earlier. The essence of our findings is that the jcs of the two samples differ because they are characterized by different values of the primary variables μi and , where is the effective mass of a charge-carrier and me is the free-electron mass and i = 1 and 2 denote Sample 1 and Sample 2, respectively. In the scenario of the charge-carriers being predominantly h-h pairs, the values of these parameters are estimated to be: μsub