JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS

Vol. 172 Nos. 1/2                                                                                                                                    July 2013



CONTENTS

Announcements

2014 Fritz London Memorial Prize: Call for Nominations......................................................................1
2014 Simon Memorial Prize: Call for Nominations.................................................................................3

Review Articles

Theories of Linear Response in BCS Superfluids and How They Meet Fundamental Constraints.........5
   Hao Guo, Chih-Chun Chien, Yan He


Articles

Temperature and Frequency Dependent Dielectric Properties of Cu0.5Tl0.5Ba2Ca3(Cu4−yCdy)O12−δ
Bulk Superconductor..............................................................................................................................47
    M. Rahim · Nawazish A. Khan · M. Mumtaz

Influence of Critical Current Density Distribution on Transport AC Losses for Round
Superconducting Wire...........................................................................................................................59
    Chen-Guang Huang · Hua-Dong Yong ·You-He Zhou

Excess Conductivity Analysis of Tl1-xYxBa2Ca2Cu3O10-x Superconductors.................................... 70
   Navazich A. Khan, Saleem Abbas and Syed M. Husnain Gardezi


Transient Electromagnetic and Heat Transfer Characteristics of the MgB2 Superconductor
in Liquid Helium....................................................................................................................................84
   H.M. Iftekhar Jaim · K. Bärner

The Nanostructures Produced by Laser Ablation of Metals in Superfluid Helium.................................94
   Eugene B. Gordon · Alexander V. Karabulin ·Vladimir I. Matyushenko ·
   Vyacheslav D. Sizov ·Igor I. Khodos

Influence of Connectivity on Vortex-Dynamic Properties of Polycrystalline
NdFeAsO0.88F0.12  Superconductors...................................................................................................113
   J.C. Zhuang · Y. Sun · Y. Ding · F.F. Yuan · X. Jia · Z.X. Shi · H.Y. Huang

Electric Field Effect on State Energies and Transition Frequency of a Strong-Coupling Polaron
in an Asymmetric Quantum Dot...........................................................................................................122
   Jing-Lin Xiao

Current-Induced Cooling Phenomenon in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Under a Magnetic Field........................................................................................................................132
   Naomi Hirayama · Akira Endo · Kazuhiro Fujita · Yasuhiro Hasegawa ·
   Naomichi Hatano · Hiroaki Nakamura · Ryoen Shirasaki · Kenji Yonemitsu

Angular dependence of transport AC losses in superconducting wire with position-
 dependent critical current density under DC magnetic field................................................................154
   Xing-liang Su, Li-ting Xiong, Yuan-wen Gao and You-he Zhou

A continuously operating, flux locked, superfluid interferometer.........................................................162
    Aditya Joshi and  Richard Packard

Erratum
Erratum to: Theories of Linear Response in BCS Superfluids and How
They Meet Fundamental Constraints...................................................................................................175
    Hao Guo · Chih-Chun Chien · Yan He