Abstract
A model is proposed which describes the dc electrical conductivity of a superconductor both above and below the classical critical point. The approach is to include in the calculation of superfluid density and the electrical conductivity, the effect of the fourth-order term of the Ginzburg-Landau theory, which represents the interaction between superfluid excitations. The resulting expression for the conductivity simplifies to the Aslamazov-Larkin result above ${T}_{c}$ and yields, for two-dimensional samples, an exponential dependence of the superfluid conductivity on $\ensuremath{\Delta}T (={T}_{c}\ensuremath{-}T)$ below ${T}_{c}$. Calculated results for the one- and three-dimensional cases are also given. Experimental studies of the electrical conductivity of two-dimensional Al films were made to test the model. Good agreement was obtained in the region below ${T}_{c}$ even when the sample resistance was followed over five decades and sample mean free paths were varied over two decades.
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