caa a22 4500 445366656 CHVBK 20180317142932.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10909-011-0345-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10909-011-0345-1 Paramagnetic Meissner Transitions in Pb Films and theVortex Compression Model [Elektronische Daten] [D. Brandt, C. Binns, S. Gurman, G. Torricelli, D. Gray] The magnetic flux exclusion known as Meissner effect resulting from a perfectly diamagnetic susceptibility χ=−1 is one of the defining features of type-I superconductivity. More recently some materials have been reported to undergo a transition to a paramagnetic state as they are cooled through their superconducting transition temperature (Svedlindh etal. in PhysicaC, pp.162-164, 1989; Li in Phys. Rep. 376:133-223, 2003). This is known as the Paramagnetic Meissner Effect (PME). Here we report the observation of a transition from the Meissner state to a PME state in thin Pb films. We go on to show how simple modifications to the vortex compression model developed by Koshelev and Larkin (Phys. Rev.B 52:13559-13562, 1995) yield magnetization-vs-temperature curves in good qualitative agreement with the magnetization curves reported in the experiment. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Paramagnetic Meissner effect nationallicence Vortex compression nationallicence Thin film nationallicence Flux compression nationallicence Brandt D. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut Binns C. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut Gurman S. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut Torricelli G. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut Gray D. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut Journal of Low Temperature Physics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2011-05-01), 170-175 0022-2291 163:3-4<170 2011 163 10909 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-011-0345-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-011-0345-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brandt D. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Binns C. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gurman S. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Torricelli G. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gray D. Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Low Temperature Physics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2011-05-01), 170-175 0022-2291 163:3-4<170 2011 163 10909 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer