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On the magnetization of two-dimensional superconductors

Superconductivity 2013-05-29 v1

Abstract

We calculate the magnetization of a two-dimensional superconductor in a perpendicular magnetic field near its Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and at lower temperatures. We find that the critical behavior is more complex than assumed in the literature and that, in particular, the critical magnetization is {\it not} field independent as naive scaling predicts. In the low temperature phase we find a substantial fluctuation renormalization of the mean-field result. We compare our analysis with the data on the cuprates.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502224,
  title  = {On the magnetization of two-dimensional superconductors},
  author = {Vadim Oganesyan and David A. Huse and S. L. Sondhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502224},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures