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Classical phase fluctuations in d-wave superconductors

Superconductivity 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study the effects of low-energy nodal quasiparticles on the classical phase fluctuations in a two-dimensional d-wave superconductor. The singularities of the phase-only action at T\to 0 are removed in the presence of disorder, which justifies using an extended classical XY-model to describe phase fluctuations at low temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510545,
  title  = {Classical phase fluctuations in d-wave superconductors},
  author = {K. V. Samokhin and B. Mitrovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510545},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, brief review for Mod. Phys. Lett. B