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Conductivity of thermally fluctuating superconductors in two dimensions

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We review recent work on a continuum, classical theory of thermal fluctuations in two dimensional superconductors. A functional integral over a Ginzburg-Landau free energy describes the amplitude and phase fluctuations responsible for the crossover from Gaussian fluctuations of the superconducting order at high temperatures, to the vortex physics of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at lower temperatures. Results on the structure of this crossover are presented, including new results for corrections to the Aslamazov-Larkin fluctuation conductivity.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0308063,
  title  = {Conductivity of thermally fluctuating superconductors in two dimensions},
  author = {Subir Sachdev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0308063},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages