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We study temperature $T$ and frequency $\omega$ dependence of the in-plane fluctuation conductivity of a disordered superconducting film above the critical temperature. Our calculation is based on the nonlinear sigma model within the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-21 Aleksandra Petković , Valerii M. Vinokur

The interplay between quantum and thermal fluctuations in the presence of quenched random disorder is a long-standing open theoretical problem which has been made more urgent by advances in modern experimental techniques. The fragility of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-28 Matthew C. O'Brien , Eduardo Fradkin

In quantum materials, electrons that have strong correlations tend to localize, leading to quantum spins as the building blocks for low-energy physics. When strongly correlated electrons coexist with more weakly-correlated conduction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-28 Haoyu Hu , Ang Cai , Lei Chen , Lili Deng , Jedediah H. Pixley , Kevin Ingersent , Qimiao Si

Properties of superfluid states of two-dimensional electron systems with critical antiferromagnetic fluctuations are investigated. These correlations are found to result in the emergence of rapidly varying in the momentum space terms in all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Khodel , V. M. Yakovenko

The effect of magnetic fluctuations on the free energy, the order parameter profile and the latent heat at the equilibrium point of the first order phase transition to superconducting state in thin films of type I superconductors is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 D. V. Shopova , T. P. Todorov , D. I. Uzunov

In a two-band superconductor, two qualitatively different fluctuation modes related to the gap modules contribute to free energy and heat capacity, in addition to the phase fluctuations. The first mode has divergent temperature behaviour…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Artjom Vargunin , Teet Ord

On the basis of $t$-matrix approximation, we study the superconductivity in the tight-binding model with d-wave attraction. The low-lying collective modes are considered as the predominant long-range fluctuations in the system. The Green's…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-Zhong Yan

We investigate tunable superconducting transitions in (111)$\mathrm{LaAlO}_3/\mathrm{KTaO}_3$ field-effect devices. Large increases in conductivity, associated with superconducting fluctuations, are observed far above the transition…

We consider the behaviour of the fluctuating specific heat and conductivity in the vicinity of the upper critical field line for a two-band superconductor. Multiple-band effects are pronounced when the bands have very different coherence…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 A. E. Koshelev , A. A. Varlamov

Motivated by recent experiments reporting superconductivity only at very low temperature in a class of heavy fermion compounds, we study the impact of energy fluctuations with small momentum transfer on the pairing instability near an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-31 Jian Kang , Rafael M. Fernandes , Elihu Abrahams , Peter Wölfle

We study the effect of superconducting fluctuations on the longitudinal and the transverse (Hall) conductivity in homogeneously disordered films. Our calculation is based on the Usadel equation in the real-time formulation. We adjust this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-29 Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Georg Schwiete , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

We study the combined effect of thermal and quantum fluctuations in a zero dimensional superconductor. By using path integral techniques, we obtain novel expressions for the partition function and the superconducting order parameter which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-05 Pedro Ribeiro , Antonio M. García-García

The interplay between superconducting fluctuations (SFs) and weak localization (WL) has been probed by temperature dependent resistance [R(T)] and magnetoresistance (MR) measurements in two-dimensional disordered superconducting TiN thin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-10 Sachin Yadav , Bikash Gajar , R. P. Aloysius , Sangeeta Sahoo

The effect of static fluctuations in the phase of the order parameter on the normal and superconducting properties of a 2D system with attractive four-fermion interaction has been studied. Analytic expressions for the fermion Green…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Valery P. Gusynin , Vadim M. Loktev , Rachel M. Quick , Sergei G. Sharapov

We calculate the fluctuation correction to the normal state conductivity in the vicinity of a quantum phase transition from a superconducting to normal state, induced by applying a magnetic field parallel to a dirty thin film or a nanowire…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Lopatin , N. Shah , V. M. Vinokur

As the normal state sheet resistance, $R_n$, of a thin film superconductor increases, its superconducting properties degrade. For $R_n\simeq h/4e^2$ superconductivity disappears and a transition to a nonsuperconducting state occurs. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Valles , J. A. Chervenak , S. -Y. Hsu , T. J. Kouh

Near the superconducting phase transition, fluctuations significantly modify the electronic transport properties. Here we study the fluctuation corrections to the Hall conductivity in disordered films, extending previous derivations to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-30 Karen Michaeli , Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

Disordered thin films close to the superconducting-insulating phase transition (SIT) hold the key to understanding quantum phase transition in strongly correlated materials. The SIT is governed by superconducting quantum fluctuations, which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-14 David Dentelski , Aviad Frydman , Efrat Shimshoni , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

In several unconventional superconductors, the highest superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ is found in a region of the phase diagram where the antiferromagnetic transition temperature extrapolates to zero, signaling a putative…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-31 Xiaoyu Wang , Yoni Schattner , Erez Berg , Rafael M. Fernandes

We point out that the low temperature saturation of the electron phase decoherence time in a disordered conductor can be explained within the existing theory of weak localization provided the effect of quantum (high frequency) fluctuations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Dmitrii S. Golubev , Andrei D. Zaikin