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Superconductivity and Spin Fluctuations

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The organizers of the Memorial Session for Herman Rietschel asked that I review some of the history of the interplay of superconductivity and spin fluctuations. Initially, Berk and Schrieffer showed how paramagnon spin fluctuations could suppress superconductivity in nearly-ferromagnetic materials. Following this, Rietschel and various co-workers wrote a number of papers in which they investigated the role of spin fluctuations in reducing the T c of various electron-phonon superconductors. Paramagnon spin fluctuations are also believed to provide the p-wave pairing mechanism responsible for the superfluid phases of 3 He. More recently, antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations have been proposed as the mechanism for d-wave pairing in the heavy-fermion superconductors and in some organic materials as well as possibly the high-T c cuprates. Here I will review some of this early history and discuss some of the things we have learned more recently from numerical simulations.

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Scalapino, D. Superconductivity and Spin Fluctuations. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 117, 179–188 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022559920049

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