About cookies on this site Our websites require some cookies to function properly (required). In addition, other cookies may be used with your consent to analyze site usage, improve the user experience and for advertising. For more information, please review your options. By visiting our website, you agree to our processing of information as described in IBM’sprivacy statement. To provide a smooth navigation, your cookie preferences will be shared across the IBM web domains listed here.
Publication
Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter & C: Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics, Optics
Paper
ORGANIC SUPERCONDUCTORS.
Abstract
The organic superconductors exhibit an unusual variety of collective states at low temperature, including superconducting (T//c less than 2. 5 K), spin density wave and insulating phases. Below approx. 4 K an external magnetic field induces a novel phase transition from a nonmagnetic (metallic state) to a magnetic (semimetallic) state. Other experiments have been interpreted in terms of triplet superconductivity and the persistence of superconducting fluctuations up to 30 K. In this paper the experimental properties of the organic superconductors are reviewed and the various models proposed to explain these properties are discussed.