Indekeu, J.O.; van Leeuwen, J.M.J. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 236 (1997) 1, pp. 114-122
We predict on the basis of the Ginzburg-Landau theory that a type-I superconductor can exhibit an interface delocalization or “wetting” transition, in which a macroscopically thick superconducting layer intrudes from the surface into the bulk normal phase. The condition for this transition...