Failure of Conventional Roughness Metrics in Assessing Field-Limiting Mesoscopic Topography in SRF Nb Films on Cu

arXiv:2609.21835 · cond-mat.supr-con · Submitted 2026-09-18 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-18

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• Coherence Length — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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