Dealing with both elemental and high-Tc superconductors (SCs) - Sn, Nb and Pb belonging to the former category, and MgB2 and different samples of YBCO to the latter - we show that the difference in the values of their critical magnetic field Hc1,c2 and the penetration depth λL(0) is, remarkably, attributable predominantly to the difference in the values of a single parameter, viz., the chemical potential (μ) close to their critical temperatures (Tcs). Based directly on the dynamics of pairing in a magnetic field and the corresponding number equation, our approach relates Hc1,c2 of an SC with the following set of its properties: S1 = {μ, Tc, Debye temperature, effective mass of the electron, magnetic interaction parameter, Landau index}. Hence, it provides an alternative to the approach followed by Talantsev [Mod. Phys. Lett. B 33, 1950195 (2019)] who has shown by ingeniously combining the results of various well-established theories that Hc2 of an SC can be calculated via four different equations, each of which invokes two or more properties from its sample-specific set S2 = {Tc, gap, coherence length, λL(0), jump in sp. ht.}, which is radically different from S1.
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