Clean-limit type II superconductors

Here we will summarize, from the previous subsections as well as from literature, some typical properties and representative parameters (see table 6) of the superconducting state of YNi2B2C and LuNi2B2C where completeness is not attempted. These materials are usually clean-limit type II superconductors. However by substitutional disorder on the rare earth site in (Y,Lu)Ni2B2C or on the transition-metal site in Lu(Ni,Co)2B2C the residual resistance ratio RRR = p(300 K)/p(Tc), where p(T) is the normal state resistivity, and the mean free path / of the electrons in the normal state can be considerably reduced... 

The non-local effects can result in an anisotropy of Hc2 microscopically due to the anisotropy of the pairing state (Shiraishi et al., 1999) or directly to the anisotropy in the shape of the Fermi surface (Metlushko et al., 1997). The anisotropy of the Fermi surface sheets (see Section 3.2) has been assumed to cause the mentioned basal anisotropy of Hc2 because the borocarbide superconductors are usually clean-limit type-II superconductors. In the clean limit for an anisotropic Fermi surface the non-local corrections to Hc2 are given by... 

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