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Percolating granular superconductors

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We investigate diamagnetic fluctuations in percolating granular superconductors. Granular superconductors are known to have a rich phase diagram including normal, superconducting and spin glass phases. Focusing on the normal-superconducting and the normal-spin glass transition at low temperatures, we study he diamagnetic susceptibility χ(1)\chi^{(1)} and the mean square fluctuations of the total magnetic moment χ(2)\chi^{(2)} of large clusters. Our work is based on a random Josephson network model that we analyze with the powerful methods of renormalized field theory. We investigate the structural properties of the Feynman diagrams contributing to the renormalization of χ(1)\chi^{(1)} and χ(2)\chi^{(2)}. This allows us to determine the critical behavior of χ(1)\chi^{(1)} and χ(2)\chi^{(2)} to arbitrary order in perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0211216,
  title  = {Percolating granular superconductors},
  author = {Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0211216},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages, 2 figures