Theory of a Continuous H$_{c2}$ Normal-to-Superconducting Transition
Abstract
I study the transition within the Ginzburg-Landau model, with -component order parameter . I find a renormalized fixed point free energy, exact in limit, suggestive of a nd-order transition in contrast to a general belief of a st-order transition. The thermal fluctuations for force one to consider an infinite set of marginally relevant operators for . I find , predicting that the ODLRO does not survive thermal fluctuations in . The result is a solution to a critical fixed point that was found to be inaccessible within -expansion, previously considered in E.Brezin, D.R.Nelson, A.Thiaville, Phys.Rev.B {\bf 31}, 7124 (1985), and was interpreted as a st-order transition.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9503147,
title = {Theory of a Continuous H$_{c2}$ Normal-to-Superconducting Transition},
author = {Leo Radzihovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9503147},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, self-unpacking uuencoded compressed postscript file with a figure already inside text; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.