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Superconductivity in disordered thin films: giant mesoscopic fluctuations

Superconductivity 2008-03-10 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We discuss intrinsic inhomogeneities of superconductive properties of uniformly disordered thin films with large dimensionless conductance g. It is shown that mesoscopic fluctuations, which usually contain a small factor 1/g, are crucially enhanced near the critical conductance g_c >> 1 where superconductivity is destroyed at T=0 due to Coulomb suppression of the Cooper attraction. This leads to strong spatial fluctuations of the local transition temperature and thus to percolative nature of the thermal superconductive transition.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504002,
  title  = {Superconductivity in disordered thin films: giant mesoscopic fluctuations},
  author = {M. A. Skvortsov and M. V. Feigel'man},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504002},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX 4

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