Abstract
We discuss the effect of the discreteness of the Landau levels on the upper critical field of a type-II superconductor. At K an ideal superconductor will remain superconducting in an arbitrarily large magnetic field. However, the high-field state is destroyed by a minute amount of impurity scattering or by a small misalignment of up- and down-spin Landau levels. The residual effects are (a) a small shift in the low-temperature critical field [] and (b) oscillatory structure in the transition temperature for temperatures .
- Received 1 July 1968
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.176.606
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