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The heat capacity of lead embedded in glass nanopores (7 nm in diameter) and bulk lead was studied in the temperature range 2–40 K without a magnetic field and in magnetic fields of 1–8 T. The properties of lead nanoparticles and bulk lead were compared. The results obtained allowed us to separate the surface superconductivity from the volume superconductivity. The temperature dependence of the heat capacity of lead nanoparticles was shown to exhibit two superconducting transitions above and below the transition temperature for bulk lead (T c = 7.2 K), which are associated with the surface and volume superconductivity. The upper critical fields H c3 for the surface superconductivity and H c2 for the volume superconductivity were determined. It turned out that these fields for Pb nanoparticles are two orders of magnitude higher than those for bulk lead. The “superconductor-normal metal” phase diagrams were constructed for lead nanoparticles. The study established an increase in the density of low-frequency excitations in Pb nanocrystals as compared to bulk Pb and a difference in the electronic heat capacity of Pb nanoparticles as compared to bulk Pb.
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Original Russian Text © G.Kh. Panova, A.A. Naberezhnov, A.V. Fokin, 2008, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2008, Vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 1317–1320.
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Panova, G.K., Naberezhnov, A.A. & Fokin, A.V. Surface and volume superconductivity of Pb embedded in nanopores. Phys. Solid State 50, 1370–1373 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783408070299
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