MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS
Abstract
The article reviews recent developments on magnetic properties of superconductors with anisotropic Cooper pairing. In particular, we show how the concept of broken symmetries is applied to the investigation of the mixed state in superconductors with a multicomponent order parameter. Starting from the phenomenological description in the framework of the generalized Ginzburg-Landau theory, we discuss different types of quantized vortices appearing at in states with and without time-reversal breaking. General classification of superconducting phase transitions in a uniform magnetic field at is constructed. Vortex lattices of different forms are found in the vicinity of the upper critical field. Symmetry arguments are used to classify phase transitions inside the mixed state. Special attention is given to results which can be obtained analytically. Also special emphasis is put on the open questions of the theory.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9501091,
title = {MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS},
author = {I. A. Luk'yanchuk and M. E. Zhitomirsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9501091},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
46 pages, LaTEX, 15 Figures available unpon request from Mike Zhitomirsky [email protected]