FIZIKA A 8 (1999) 4 , 345-356

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INTRODUCTION TO UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

KAZUMI MAKI and GUOLIN YANG
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles CA90089-0484, USA

Dedicated to Professor Boran Leontiæ on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Received 2 December 1999; Accepted 3 April 2000

The dawn of the 21st century may be characterized as the era of unconventional superconductivity. First we shall classify unconventional superconductors so far identified. Then we survey some of remarkable properties of f-wave superconductivity in UPt3. We suggest also that the superconductivity in URu2Si2 is most likely of f-wave.

PACS numbers: 74.70.-b
UDC 538.945
 
Keywords: new superconductors, f-wave superconductivity, UPt3, URu2Si2
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