Advances in superconductivity. X, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS '97), October 27-30, 1997, Gifu. Volume 1-3

The International Symposium on Superconductivity, which has been held annu­ ally since 1988, is a forum for presenting the most up-to-date information about a broad range of research and development in superconductivity, from funda­ mental aspects to applications. More than 10 years have passed since the discovery of oxide superconductors and since various developments of applications began. It may be said that the prospects for application of oxide superconductors recently have opened up. Great progress has been made toward practical use, for example, of the flywheel, which uses bulk materials, and the high-performance cryo-cooled magnet made of bismuth wire. These were the results of persistent efforts to develop materials from the viewpoint of materials science and engineering. Also important is the progress in comprehensive understanding of high­ temperature superconductivity. Unique electronic properties of cuprates such as the non-Fermi liquid normal state, spin-charge separation, spin gap, and d-wave symmetry were discussed at the symposium, as were the unique electromagnetic properties resulting from the low dimensionality of cuprates. In the field of new superconductors, many exotic materials have been discovered since 1986. A decade of work with cuprate superconductors is reviewed in this proceedings, and several of the newest materials are presented. These papers will be instructive for many researchers and for students who are to enter this field. Front Matter....Pages II-XXXVIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Decade of High Temperature Superconducting Materials....Pages 3-9 System Applications of Superconductivity in Energy Field of Japan....Pages 11-16 Quasi-particles probed by thermal conductivity in cuprates....Pages 17-22 AC Losses in High-T c Materials....Pages 23-28 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Charge Stripes and Antiferromagnetism in Copper-Oxide Superconductors....Pages 31-36 How Does the High-T c Superconductivity Disappear by Overdoping? -A Scenario from a Neutron Scattering Study on La 2-x Sr x CuO 4 -....Pages 37-42 Direct Numerical Experiments on Superconducting Plasma and Intrinsic Josephson Effects in Layered High- Tc Superconductors....Pages 43-46 Anomaly in the Coupling between Electromagnetic and Acoustic Waves in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 Single Crystal....Pages 47-50 Observation of Unconventional SQUID-like Properties for Asymmetrical Bicrystal Josephson Junction....Pages 51-54 Hall Effect of Vortices Parallel to CuO 2 Layers in Single Crystalline Bi-2212....Pages 55-58 Quasiparticles and Vortex State of Layered Superconductors....Pages 59-62 Temperature Dependence of Lower Critical Fields in a Single-Crystal Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+d Bulk Superconductor....Pages 63-66 Effect of Small Transport Currents on the Flux-Line Lattice Melting in Bi-2212 Crystal....Pages 67-70 Critical Current Density and Irreversibility Field for Pb-l2( n -l) n ( n = 3,4) Superconductors....Pages 71-74 Frequency Dependence of the Complex Resistivity in the Vortex State....Pages 75-78 Voltage-Noise Measurements in Dirty Superconducting Films....Pages 79-82 On the Origin of Peak Effect in High-Tc Superconductors....Pages 83-86 Double Sign Reversal of the Hall Effect in YBa 2 Cu 3 O x Thin Films....Pages 87-90 Vortex Correlation in Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 1 Cu 2 O x Single Crystals with Columnar Defects....Pages 91-94 Influence of Columnar Defects on the Reversible Magnetization of Bi2212....Pages 95-98 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Low Field Decoupling Transiton in Some BSCCO Samples....Pages 99-102 Effects of Heavy-Ion Irradiation on the Josephson Plasma Resonance in the Mixed State Of Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O y ....Pages 103-106 First-Order Vortex Lattice Melting Transition in Tilted Magnetic Fields in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ ....Pages 107-110 Temperature Dependence of Collective Josephson Plasma Modes in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ ....Pages 111-114 Anomalous Hysteretic Dielectric Polarization in C-Axis-Oriented La2-xSrxCuO4 Film....Pages 115-118 Impurity (Ni,Zn) Effects on Resistive Broadening in YBa 2 Cu 3 O y Crystals....Pages 119-122 Magnetic Characteristics of the Superconducting TSFZ PrBa 2 Cu 3 O y Crystal....Pages 123-126 Precise Measurements of Y 2 BaCuO ζ⋍5 Quantity in Y 1.8 Ba 2.4 Cu 3.4 O y Heat Treated at High Temperatures....Pages 127-130 Physical Properties of PrBa 2-x Ca x Cu 3 O 7-δ ....Pages 131-134 Out-of-plane Transport Properties of Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca(Cu 1-X Zn x ) 2 O 8+δ Single Crystals....Pages 135-138 Anisotropic Thermal Diffusivity of Untwinned Y-123 Single Crystal....Pages 139-142 The heat-treatment effect on the magnetization curves of Nd123 single crystals....Pages 143-146 Transport Properties of Bi2212 Single Crystal under Uniaxial Stress....Pages 147-150 Comparative Study on Electron-Density Distribution of Superconducting YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6.9 and Non-Superconducting YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6.0 ....Pages 151-154 Effects of the Fermi surface topology in κ-ET 2 X materials....Pages 155-158 Heat Capacity Measurements on Borocarbide Ho 0.5 Y 0.5 Ni 2 B 2 C....Pages 159-162 Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Two-Dimensional a-Mo x Si 1-x Films....Pages 163-166 Specific Heat Study on Magnetic Superconductor YbPd 2 Sn....Pages 167-170 Vortex Behavior in Bi-2212 Single Crystals for the Magnetic Field Parallel to the CuO 2 Planes....Pages 171-174 Microwave Absorption Study on YBa 2 Cu 3 O y /MgO at Low Magnetic Fields....Pages 175-178 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Vortex Dynamics in Bulk High Temperature Superconductors Estimated by Microwave Absorption....Pages 179-182 Tunneling Spectroscopy of Bi 2 Sr 2 CuO 6+y under Magnetic Fields....Pages 183-186 ESR Observations in Mn-Doped YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ Superconductors....Pages 187-190 Optical Studies of Zn Substitution and Overdoping Effects on in-plane Anisotropy in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ Single Crystals....Pages 191-194 Manifestation of oxygen-ordering kinetics in Raman spectra of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x single crystals....Pages 195-198 Behavior of “Forbidden” Modes in Raman Spectra of Underdoped YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-X ....Pages 199-202 Phonon Raman scattering in Nd 1+x Ba 2-x Cu 3 O 7-δ (−0.023≤ x ≤ 0.107)....Pages 203-206 Low Field Microwave Absorption Study on K 3 C 60 ....Pages 207-210 Crystal Growth of PrBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-y ....Pages 211-214 Structural Differences of Superconducting and Non-Superconducting PrBa 2 Cu 3 O x Crystals....Pages 215-218 Features of Crystal Structures in Sr 1-x La x VO 3 ....Pages 219-222 Features of Crystal Structures and Microstructures in Ceramic Samples of La 1-x Sr x MnO 3+δ ....Pages 223-226 Modulated Structures in La 2-x Sr x MO 4 (M=Ni, Mn)....Pages 227-230 Features of Crystal Structures in Ca2RuO4....Pages 231-234 Spin-Charge Separation in High-Tc Cuprates — Illusion or Reality ?....Pages 235-240 Spatial dependence of the pair potential of the normal metal d -wave superconductor junction....Pages 241-244 Exact Solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau Equation in the Elliptic Function Formalism....Pages 245-248 Theoretical study of the Josephson current through a junction including ferromagnetic insulator....Pages 249-252 Pairing Symmetries of the Electron-Doped Systems of High- T c Superconductors....Pages 253-256 A Unified Description of Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism Based on the Spinor Representation of SO (5)....Pages 257-260 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Langevin Simulation of Nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau Model for Superconductors in a Magnetic Field....Pages 261-264 Local Density of States of the Quasiparticles in the Superconducting States of the Non-Uniform t-J Model....Pages 265-268 SCR Theory for the Superconducting Fluctuations in Layered d -Wave Superconductors....Pages 269-272 Competition of Superconductivity with SDW in 2D Hubbard Model — Strong Effect of Next Nearest Neighbor Transfer Energy t’....Pages 273-276 Front Matter....Pages 277-277 Dramatically Improved Flux Pinning Properties of Heavily Pb-Doped Bi2212 Single Crystals and Ag Composite Tapes....Pages 279-284 Two-Phase Microstructures in the Heavily Pb-Substituted Bi-2212 Single Crystals Serving as Efficient Pinning Centers....Pages 285-288 Crystal Engineering for High-Tc Devices....Pages 289-292 Chalcogenide Superconductors....Pages 293-296 Preparation and Properties of RuSr 2 GdCu 2 O x , with the 1212 Structure....Pages 297-300 Preparation of TlSr 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O y Under High Pressure....Pages 301-304 New Oxycarbonate Superconductors CCa 2 Ca n-1 Cu n O 2n+3+δ (n=1, 2) Synthesized Under High Pressure....Pages 305-308 The complex nature of the [AO] ∞ layer in the A(Ba,Sr) 2 Ca m-1 Cu m O 2m+3-δ superconductors....Pages 309-314 Preparation and Characterization of YBa 2 Cu 4 O 8 Single Crystal Grown in Y 2 O 3 Crucible Using O 2 -Hip Apparatus....Pages 315-318 Synthesis and Characterization of Strongly Over-doped HgBa 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O 8+δ Samples....Pages 319-322 Hole Doping Mechanism and Structural Changes in Cu(Ba 0.8 Sr 0.2 ) 2 (Yb 1-x Ca x )Cu 2 O 6+z ....Pages 323-326 Superconductivity in Y 1-x-y Pr x Ca y Ba 2 Cu 2.85 Re 0.15 O z (y=0.0 & 0.1; 0