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Hidden Crossover Phenomena in Strongly Pauli Limited Multiband Superconductors ---Application to CeCu$_2$Si$_2$

Superconductivity 2015-07-08 v2

Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments on heavy fermion materials CeCu2_2Si2_2 and UBe13_{13}, we develop a framework to capture generic properties of multiband superconductors with strong Pauli paramagnetic effect (PPE). In contrast to the single band case, the upper critical field Hc2H_{\rm c2} can remain second order transition even for strong PPE cases. The expected first order transition is hidden inside Hc2H_{\rm c2} and becomes a crossover due to the interplay of multibandness. The present theory based on full self-consistent solutions of the microscopic Eilenberger theory explains several mysterious anomalies associated with the crossover and the "empty" vortex core state which is observed by recent STM experiment on CeCu2_2Si2_2.

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@article{arxiv.1410.3555,
  title  = {Hidden Crossover Phenomena in Strongly Pauli Limited Multiband Superconductors ---Application to CeCu$_2$Si$_2$},
  author = {Yasumasa Tsutsumi and Kazushige Machida and Masanori Ichioka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3555},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures + 3 pages, 1 figure (supplementary material), published version