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Nonequilibrium mesoscopic superconductors in a fluctuational regime

Superconductivity 2010-06-08 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We show that there exist a class of nonequilibrium systems for which a non-equilibrium analog of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) functional can be constructed and propose the procedure for its derivation. As an example, we consider a small superconductor island of the size less than the coherence length in a stationary nonequlibrium state. We find the GL expansion of the free energy functional of such a system and analyze the dependence of the coefficients of the expansion upon the external drive and the non-equilibrium distribution functions.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2372,
  title  = {Nonequilibrium mesoscopic superconductors in a fluctuational regime},
  author = {N. Chtchelkatchev and V. Vinokur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2372},
  year   = {2010}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure

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