Motivated by recent experiments on heavy fermion materials CeCu2Si2 and UBe13, 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 Hc2 can remain second order transition even for strong PPE cases. The expected first order transition is hidden inside Hc2 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 CeCu2Si2.
@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