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Effects of a Magnetic Field on Superconductivity and Quantum Criticality in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Systems with Dirac Electrons

Superconductivity 2020-10-14 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the effects of an external magnetic field on thensuperconducting phase diagram of a quasi-two-dimensional system of Dirac electrons at an arbitrary temperature. At zero temperature, there is a quantum phase transition connecting a normal and a superconducting phase, occurring at a critical line that corresponds to a magnetic field dependent critical coupling parameter, which should be observed in planar materials containing Dirac electrons, such as CuxTiSe2Cu_xTiSe_2. Moreover, the superconducting gap is obtained as a function of temperature, magnetic field and coupling parameter (λR\lambda_{\rm R}). From this, we extract the critical magnetic field Bc B_{ c } as a function of the temperature. For small values of Bc B_{ c } , we obtain a linear decay of the critical field, which is similar to the behavior observed experimentally in the copper doped dichalcogenide CuxTiSe2Cu_xTiSe_2 and also in intercalated graphite.

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@article{arxiv.2010.02513,
  title  = {Effects of a Magnetic Field on Superconductivity and Quantum Criticality in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Systems with Dirac Electrons},
  author = {E. C. Marino and Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02513},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:cond-mat/0703184