Abstract
The phenomenon of superconductivity discovered by Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911 [48] occurs in some metals, compounds and alloys at the temperature close to the absolute zero. The physics and engineering applications of superconductivity have been described in a number of excellent monographs and textbooks such as [4,49–57], where the phenomenological and the microscopic theories are presented as well as the fundamental experimental results. We do not intend to carry out a complete study of the subject. Our purpose is to deliver the results of the pivotal experiments and to explain the superconductor behavior in an external magnetic field using the phenomenological theories of London [58, 59], and Ginzburg-Landau [60]. We also present the results of some applied problems thoroughly investigated in [56].
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Vagner, I.D., Lembrikov, B.I., Wyder, P. (2004). Electrodynamics of Superconductors. In: Electrodynamics of Magnetoactive Media. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06941-7_9
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