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- Alexander Gurevich
- Professor
- Department of Physics
- 225 OceanographyandPhysics Bldg
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-4394
- agurevic@odu.edu
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Education
- Institute of High Temperatures, USSR Academy of Sciences,
1983
- Major: Physics
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys,
1977
- Major: Physics
- Degree: M.S.
- Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys,
1974
- Major: Physics
- Degree: B.S.
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Books
- Gurevich, A., Mints, R. G., and Rakhmanov, A. L. (1997). The Physics of Composite Superconductors. New York: Begell House.
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Articles
- Gurevich, A., and Vinokur, V. M. (2012). Comment on “Vortex-assisted photon counts and their magnetic field dependence in single-photon superconducting detectors. Physical Review B, 86 (026501),
- Lin, F. P., and Gurevich, A. (2012). Effect of impurities on the superheating field of type-II superconductors. Physical Review B, 85 (054513),
- Kunchur, M. N., Liang, M., and Gurevich, A. (2012). Thermally activated dynamics of spontaneous perpendicular vortices tuned by parallel magneticfields in thin superconducting
films. Physical Review B, 86 (024521),
- Cho, K., Kim, H., Tanatar, M. A., Song, Y. J., Kwon, Y. S., Coniglio, W. A., Agosta, C. C., Gurevich, A., and Prozorov, R. (2011). Anisotropic upper critical field and a possible Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in a stoichiometric pnictide superconductor
LiFeAs. Physical Review B, 82 (060502R),
- Tarantini, C., Jaroszynski, J., Kametani, F., Zuev, Y. L., Gurevich, A., Chen, Y., Selvanmanickam, V., Larbalestier, D. C., and Christen, D. K. (2011). Anisotropy of the irreversibility field for rare-earth-doped YBa₂Cu₃O₇-x thin. Physical Review B, 84 (224514),
- Gebre, T., Li, G., Whalen, J. B., Conner, B. S., Zhou, H. D., Grissonanche, G., Kostov, M. K., Gurevich, A., Siegrist, T., and Balicas, L. (2011). Disorder-dependent superconducting phase diagram at high magnetic fields in Fe₁+ySexTe₁-x, x ∼ 0.4. Physical Review B, 84 (174571),
- Tarantini, C., and Gurevich, A. (2011). High field properties of pure and doped MgB₂ and Fe-based superconductors. MRS Bulletin, 36, (pp. 626-630).
- Dai, W., Ferrando, V., Pogrebnyakov, A. V., Wilke, R. H., Chen, K., Weng, X., Redwing, J., Qung Bark, C., Eom, C., Zhu, Y., Voyles, P. M., Rickel, D., Betts, J. B., Mielke, C. H., Gurevich, A., Larbalestier, D. C., Li, Q., and Xi, X. X. (2011). High-field properties of carbon-doped MgB2 thin films by hybrid physical–chemical vapor deposition using different carbon
sources. Superconductor Science and Technology, 24 (125014),
- Gurevich, A. (2011). Iron-based superconductors at high magnetic fields. Reports on Progress in Physics, 74, (pp. 124501-12520).
- G., L., Grissonanche, G., Gurevich, A., Zhigadlo, N. D., Katrych, S., Bukowski, Z., Karpinski, J., and Balicas, L. (2011). Multi-band superconductivity in LaFeAsO₀.₉F₉.₉₁ single crystals probed by high-field vortex torque magnetometry. Physical Review B, 83 (214505),
- Cho, K., Kim, H., Tanatar, M. A., Song, Y. J., Kwon, Y. S., Coniglio, W. A., Agosta, C. C., Gurevich, A., and Prozorov, R. (2011). Nernst effect from fluctuating pairs in the pseudogap phase of the cuprates. Physical Review B, 82 (060502),
- Tarantini, C., Gurevich, A., Jaroszynski, J., Balakirev, F., Bellingeri, E., Pallecchi, I., Ferdeghini, C., Shen, B., Wen, H. H., and Larbalestier, D. C. (2011). Significant enhancement of upper critical fields by doping and strain in Fe-based superconductors. Physical Review B, 84 (184522),
- Durrell, J. H., Eom, C. B., Gurevich, A., Hellstrom, E. E., Tarantini, C., Yamamoto, A., and Larbalestier, D. C. (2011). The behavior of grain boundaries in the Fe-based superconductors. Reports on Progress in Physics, 74 (124511),
- Gurevich, A. (2011). To use or not to use cool superconductors?. Nature Materials, 10, (pp. 255-259).
- Gurevich, A. (2010). Helical instability of charged vortices in layered superconductors. Physical Rev. B, 81 (100505),
- Groll, N., Gurevich, A., and Chiorescu, I. (2010). Measurements of the nonlinear Meissner effect in superconducting Nb films using resonant microwave cavity: A probe of unconventional
order parameter.. Physical Rev. B, 81 (020504),
- Putti, M., Pallecchi, I., Bellinger, E., Tropeano, M., Tarantini, C., Yamamoto, A., Jiang, J., Jaroszysnki, J., Kametani, F., Abraimov, D., Pollyanskii, A., Weiss, J. D., Hellstrom, E. E., and Gurevich, A. (2010). New Fe-based superconductors: properties relevant for applications.. Superconductor Science and Technology, 23 (034003),
- Tarantini, C., Lee, S., Zhang, Y., Bark, C. W., Weiss, J. D., Nelson, C. T., Jang, H. W., Folkman, C. M., Baek, S. H., Pan, X. Q., Gurevich, A., Hellstrom, E. E., Eom, C. B., and Larbalestier, D. C. (2010). Strong vortex pinning in Co-doped BaFe₂As₂ single crystal thin films. Applied Physics Letters, 96 (142510),
- Tarantini, C., Putti, M., Gurevich, A., Shen, Y., Singh, R. K., Rowell, J. M., Newman, N., Larbalestier, D. C., Cheng, P., Jia, Y., and Wen, H. H. (2010). Suppression of the critical temperature in NdFeAs(OF)single crystal by Kondo-like scattering induced by irradiation.. Physical Review Letters, 104 (087002),
- Gurevich, A. (2010). Upper Critical Field and the Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Transition in Multiband Superconductors. Physical Rev. B, 82 (184504),
- Patel, U., Xiao, Z. L., Gurevich, A., Avci, S., Hua, J., Divan, R., Welp, U., and Kwok, W. K. (2009). Granularity Correlated Dissipation in Superconducting. Physical Rev. B, 80 (012504),
- Patel, U., Xiao, Z. L., Gurevich, A., Avci, S., Hua, J., Divan, R., Welp, U., and Kwok, W. K. (2009). Granularity Correlated Dissipation in Superconducting Niobium Nitride Nanowires. Physical Rev. B, 80 (012504),
- Jo, Y. J., Jaroszysnki, J., Gurevich, A., Riggs, S. C., Boebinger, G. S., Larbalastier, D., Wen, H. H., Zhigadlo, N. D., Katrych, S., Bukowski, Z., Karpinski, J., Liu, R. H., Chen, H., Chen, X. H., and Balics, L. (2009). High-field phase-diagram of Fe arsenide superconductors. Physica C, 469, (pp. 566-574).
- Jo, Y. J., Jaroszysnki, J., Yamamoto, A., Gurevich, A., Riggs, C., Boebinger, G. S., Larbalastier, D., and Wen, H. H. (2009). High-field phase-diagram of Fe arsenide superconductors. Physica C, 469, (pp. 566-574).
- Kametani, F., Li, P., Abraimov, D., Ployanskii, A. A., Yamamoto, A., Yamamoto, A., Jiang, J., Hellstrom, E. E., Gurevich, A., Larbalestier, D. c., Ren, Z. A., Yang, J., Dong, X. L., Lu, W., and Zhao, Z. X. (2009). Intergrain current flow in a randomly oriented polycrystalline SmFeAsO₀:85 oxypnictide. Applied Physics Letters, 95 (142502),
- Riggs, S., Tarantini, C., Jaroszysnki, J., Gurevich, A., Palenzona, A., Putti, M., Nguen, T. D., and Afronte, M. (2009). Magnetic ordering of Re lattice in ReFeAsO: the odd case of Sm. A specific heat investigation in high magneticfields. Physical Rev. B, 80 (214404),
- Chen, Z., Kametani, F., Gupta, R., and Larbalestier, D. C. (2009). Pinning, thermally-activated depinning and their importance for tuning the nanoparticle size and density in high Jc YBa₂Cu₃O₇x
films.. Physica C 469, 2021,
- Lee, S., Jiang, J., Weiss, J. D., Folkman, C. M., Bark, C. W., Tarantini, C., Xu, A., Abraimov, D., and Gurevich, A. (2009). Weak link behavior of grain boundaries in Co-dopedBaFe₂As₂ pnictide superconductors. Applied Physics Letters, 958 (212505),
- Gurevich, A. (1995). Nonlinear flux diffusion in superconductors. International Journal of Modern Physics, B9, (pp. 1045-1065).
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Presentations
- Fe-based superconductors: novel properties and potential applications
- Conference Name: Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity
- Sponsoring Organization: Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity
- Location: M2S. Washington DC
- Date: July 29, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Calculation of hotspots caused by trapped vortices
- Conference Name: 7-th SRF Materials Workshop, Jefferson Lab
- Sponsoring Organization: 7-th SRF Materials Workshop, Jefferson Lab
- Location: Newport News, VA
- Date: July 16, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Tuning the superheating and RF breakdown fields in type-II superconductors by impurities
- Conference Name: 7-th SRF Materials Workshop, Jefferson Lab
- Sponsoring Organization: 7-th SRF Materials Workshop, Jefferson Lab
- Location: Newport News, VA
- Date: July 16, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Lin, F.
Gurevich, A.
- Effect of impurities on superheating field of type II superconductor
- Conference Name: Cornell University, Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics
- Sponsoring Organization: Cornell University, Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics
- Location: Ithaca
- Date: April 27, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Lin, F.
Gurevich, A.
- Tuning the upper critical fields in iron-based superconductors
- Conference Name: Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society
- Sponsoring Organization: Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society
- Location: San-Francisco, CA
- Date: April 12, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Effect of impurities on superheating field of type II superconductor
- Conference Name: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
- Sponsoring Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
- Location: Newport News, VA
- Date: March 22, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Lin, F.
Gurevich, A.
- Effect of impurities on superheating field of type II superconductor
- Conference Name: APS March Meeting
- Sponsoring Organization: APS March Meeting
- Location: Boston
- Date: March 1, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Lin, F.
Gurevich, A.
- Fe-based superconductors at high magnetic fields
- Conference Name: Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sponsoring Organization: Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Location: Wisconsin-Madison
- Date: October 26, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- New challenges and opportunities for high-Tc superconducting materials
- Conference Name: 78-th Annual Meeting of South-East Section of the American Physical materials
- Sponsoring Organization: 78-th Annual Meeting of South-East Section of the American Physical materials
- Location: Roanoke, VA
- Date: October 19, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Fe-based superconductors at high magnetic fields
- Conference Name: Department of Physics University of Maryland
- Sponsoring Organization: Department of Physics University of Maryland
- Location: Maryland
- Date: October 2, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Fe-based superconductors at high magnetic fields
- Conference Name: Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sponsoring Organization: Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Location: Wisconsin-Madison
- Date: September 26, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Fe-based superconductors (FBS) at high magnetic fields
- Conference Name: 13-th International Workshop on Vortex Matter
- Sponsoring Organization: 13-th International Workshop on Vortex Matter
- Location: Chicago
- Date: August 1, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Multilayer coating of superconducting cavities: challenges and opportunities
- Conference Name: 15-th International Conference on RF Superconductivity
- Sponsoring Organization: 15-th International Conference on RF Superconductivity
- Location: Chicago
- Date: July 25, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Effect of impurities on superheating field in superconductors
- Conference Name: Argonne National Lab
- Sponsoring Organization: Argonne National Lab
- Date: July 23, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Lin, F.
Gurevich, A.
- Upper critical field and FFLO transition in multiband ferropnictides
- Conference Name: APS March Meeting
- Sponsoring Organization: APS March Meeting
- Location: Dallas
- Date: March 21, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Multiband superconductivity at high magnetic fields and the FFLO instability in ferropnictides
- Conference Name: NORDITA Stockholm
- Sponsoring Organization: NORDITA Stockholm
- Location: Sweden
- Date: January 3, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Nonlinear Meissner Effect and Enhancement of the Field Onset of Penetration of Vortices in Dirty Nb Films Under RF and DC
Fields
- Sponsoring Organization: 6-th Thin Film SRF Workshop
- Location: Padova, Italy
- Date: October 4, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Superconductivity in ferropnictides at very high magnetic fields
- Sponsoring Organization: NORDITA Stockholm
- Location: Sweden
- Date: July 19, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Impurity effects and current transport in oxypnictides at high magnetic fields
- Sponsoring Organization: International Conference of Superconductivity and Magnetism
- Location: Antalya, Turkey
- Date: April 25, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Ferropnictides at high magnetic fields the role of pairing symmetry and impurity scattering
- Sponsoring Organization: APS March Meeting
- Location: Portland, OR
- Date: March 16, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Effect of defects on the physics of SRF
- Sponsoring Organization: 6-th Materials SRF Workshop
- Location: NHMFL, Tallahassee
- Date: February 19, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- High field superconductivity in ferropnictides High field superconductivity in ferropnic tides
- Sponsoring Organization: LANL
- Date: October 14, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Making cuprates and other new superconductors suitable for applications
- Sponsoring Organization: Dept. Physics University of Florida
- Location: Gainsville
- Date: September 28, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Making cuprates and other new superconductors suitable for applications
- Conference Name: Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity
- Sponsoring Organization: Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Date: September 11, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Pnictides at high magnetic fields
- Sponsoring Organization: KITP School on High-Tc superconductivity
- Location: UCSB, Santa Barbara
- Date: August 12, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Designing superconducting materials for applications
- Sponsoring Organization: Summer School for New Superconducting Materials
- Location: UCSB, Santa Barbara
- Date: August 7, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Tailoring designer superconductors for power applications
- Sponsoring Organization: International Workshop on the search for New Superconductors
- Location: Japan
- Date: May 12, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Oxypnictide superconductors at high magnetic fields
- Sponsoring Organization: 2009 Spring Meeting of Materials Research Society
- Location: San Fransisco,
- Date: April 14, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Superconductivity in oxypnictides
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: March 31, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Magnetism and superconductivity
- Sponsoring Organization: International Symposium on Fe-oxypnictide Superconductors
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Date: June 28, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
Tarantini, C.
Larbalestier, D. C.
Ren, Z. A.
Dong, X. L.
Lu, W.
Zhao, Z. X.
- Phase textures and fractional vortices in two-gap superconductors
- Sponsoring Organization: Stanford University
- Date: April 24, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Exploring the limits of critical currents in realistic superconductors
- Sponsoring Organization: APS March Meeting
- Location: New Orleans
- Date: March 11, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Current-limiting mechanisms in high-Tc superconductors; understanding nanoscale charging and dielectric precipitation on grain
boundaries
- Sponsoring Organization: 48-th Sanibel Symposium
- Location: St. Simon Island
- Date: February 21, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- New effects of the phase coherence in superconductors: from SQUIDS to fractional vortices in high-Tc oxides and MgB₂
- Conference Name: University of Tennessee
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Tennessee
- Date: February 4, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Phase textures and fractional vortices in two-gap superconductors
- Sponsoring Organization: National Tsing-Hua University
- Location: Taiwan,
- Date: December 16, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Breakdown of the phase-locked state and limits of Hc₂ in two-gap superconductrors
- Conference Name: Institute of Physics
- Sponsoring Organization: Institute of Physics
- Location: Beijing, China
- Date: October 21, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Dynamics of vortex penetration, jumpwise instabilities and high-field rf surface resistance
- Sponsoring Organization: 2007 Workshop on RF superconductivity
- Location: Beijing, China
- Date: October 11, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Can a superconductor be useful at room temperatures
- Conference Name:
- Location: Florida State University
- Date: October 4, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Current-induced phase textures in two- gap superconductors and multilayers
- Sponsoring Organization: Imperial College
- Location: London, UK
- Date: September 14, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Critical currents in thin films and the ultimate limit of Jc in YBCO coated conductors. How much higher can Jc go?
- Conference Name: Univ. of Cambridge
- Sponsoring Organization: Univ. of Cambridge
- Location: UK
- Date: September 12, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- High-field current transport at 300K. Can a compromise between vortex fluctuations, anisotropy competing orders and pairing
symmetry be reached?
- Sponsoring Organization: International workshop
- Location: Loen, Norway
- Date: June 17, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- High-field surface resistance and rf breakdown in multilayer coatings
- Sponsoring Organization: SRF Materials Workshop
- Location: Fermi National Lab
- Date: May 23, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Current-induced phase textures in two- gap superconductors and multilayers
- Sponsoring Organization: International workshop on quantum effects in arrays of nanocrystals
- Location: Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Date: April 27, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Is MgB₂ near the paramagnetic limit, and how far higher can Hc₂ go?”
- Sponsoring Organization: US-Italy workshop on advanced superconductors
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: March 2, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Limits of self-field critical currents in YBCO coated conductors
- Sponsoring Organization: Applied Superconductivity Conference
- Location: Seattle
- Date: August 27, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Limits of critical fields and currents in superconductors
- Sponsoring Organization: DOE BES Superconductivity workshop
- Date: May 8, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- ”RF breakdown in multilayer coatings: a possibility to break the Nb monopoly
- Location: Cornell University
- Date: May 2, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Multiscale mechanisms of SRF breakdown
- Location: Cornell University
- Date: May 1, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- ”Anisotropic high-field superconductivity in MgB2 near the paramagnetic limit
- Sponsoring Organization: Materials Research Society Meeting
- Location: San-Francisco
- Date: April 19, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Current-limiting mechanisms in highperformance YBCO coated conductorsconductors: How much conductors: How much higher can
Jc go?
- Sponsoring Organization: Superconductivity Workshop
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Date: March 6, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Strong Flux Pinning in Coated Conductors: How much higher can Jc go?
- Sponsoring Organization: Wire development workshop
- Location: St. Petersburg, FL
- Date: January 31, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
Kim, S. L.
Larbalestier, D. C.
- Anisotropic high-field superconductivity in MgB₂ near the paramagnetic limit
- Sponsoring Organization: The US-Japan Workshop on High Performance Superconductors
- Location: Lake Geneva, IL
- Date: October 15, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Electromagnetic, atomic-structure and chemistry changes induced by Ca-doping of lowangle YBCO grain boundaries
- Sponsoring Organization: The 12-th International Workshop on Oxide Electronics
- Location: Cape Cod,
- Date: October 2, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
Song, X.
Daniels, G.
Feldmann, D. M.
Larbalestier, D. C.
- RF breakdown in multilayer coatings: a possibility to break the Nb monopoly
- Sponsoring Organization: Jefferson Lab
- Date: July 17, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Theoretical advances in SRF
- Sponsoring Organization: 12-th International workshop on RF superconductivity
- Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Date: July 10, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Multiscale current transport in superconductors in high magnetic fields
- Conference Name:
- Location: Arizona State University
- Date: May 5, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Dendritic flux avalanches and nonocal electrodynamics of superconducting films
- Sponsoring Organization: 10-th International Vortex Workshop
- Location: Bombay India
- Date: January 9, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Dendritic flux avalanches and nonocal electrodynamics of superconducting films
- Conference Name: 10-th International Vortex Workshop
- Sponsoring Organization: 10-th International Vortex Workshop
- Location: Bombay India
- Date: January 9, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Gurevich, A.
- Outstanding referee for the journals of the American Physical Society, American Physical Society
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, (DCMP)
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
- State prize for young scientists in physics, USSR