Related papers: Lorentz-violating QED inspired superconductivity
In the present paper, we study the superconducting wire. It is known from Maxwell equations that the current creates magnetic field that suppresses superconductivity and wire starts to conduct with resistance. We consider the time dependent…
The Cooper pairs in superconducting condensates are shown to acquire a temperature-dependent dc magnetic moment under the effect of the circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation. The mechanisms of this inverse Faraday effect are…
The QCD phase transition is explored at finite isospin density and magnetic field within the extended two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. By adopting the Ginzburg-Landau approximation, we study the transitions from normal chiral symmetry…
The dynamical equations of an electromagnetic field coupled with a conducting material are studied. The properties of the interaction are described by a classical field theory with tensorial material laws in space-time geometry. We show…
Effects of the anisotropy of Cooper pairs in spin-triplet ferromagnetic superconductors are investigated on the basis of the Ginzburg-Landau theory. A special attention is paid to the triggering of the superconducting state by the…
The `Landau--Ginzburg' theory of Girvin and MacDonald, modified by adding the natural magnetic term, is shown to admit stable topological as well as non-topological vortex solutions. The system is the commun $\lambda\to0$ limit of two…
We give a straightforward generalization of the Ginzburg-Landau theory for superconductors where the scalar phase field is replaced by an antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field. We predict that at very low temperatures, where quantum phase effects…
UTe2 is a newly discovered unconventional superconductor, where electron Cooper pairs combine into a spin-triplet ground state. Here we report the specific heat C(H,T) of a high-quality single crystal of UTe2 with a single specific heat…
High energy cosmic neutrino observations provide a sensitive test of Lorentz invariance violation, which may be a consequence of quantum gravity theories. We consider a class of non-renormalizable, Lorentz invariance violating operators…
We examine the consequences of a cubic term addition to the mean-field potential of Ginzburg-Landau theory to describe first order superconductive phase transitions. Constraints on its existence are obtained from experiment, which are used…
In this paper we investigate the bosonic Casimir effect in a Lorentz-violating symmetry scenario. The theoretical model adopted consists of a real massive scalar quantum field confined in a region between two large parallel plates, having…
We study the Ginzburg-Landau energy of superconductors with a term $a_\ep$ modelling the pinning of vortices by impurities in the limit of a large Ginzburg-Landau parameter $\kappa=1/\ep$. The function $a_\ep$ is oscillating between 1/2 and…
Applying the Ginzburg-Landau theory including frame dragging effects to the case of a rotating superconductor, we were able to express the absolute value of the gravitomagnetic field involved to explain the Cooper pair mass anomaly…
A new Green's function representation is employed in a microscopic derivation of a Ginzburg-Landau theory of strongly type superconductivity at high magnetic fields. An exact analytical, physically transparent expression for the quartic…
The Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson hamiltonian is studied for different values of the parameter $\lambda$ which multiplies the quartic term (it turns out that this is equivalent to consider different values of the coherence length $\xi$ in units of…
We address a mean-field zero-temperature Ginzburg-Landau, or \phi^4, model subjected to quenched additive noise, which has been used recently as a framework for analyzing collective effects induced by diversity. We first make use of a…
We study the metastability of the superheated Meissner state in type II superconductors with k >> 1 beyond Ginzburg-Landau theory, which is applicable only in the vicinity of the critical temperature. Within Eilenberger's semiclassical…
We develop a Ginzburg--Landau theory for superconducting thin films under quantum confinement. Starting from the microscopic BCS free energy and the recently developed confinement theory of metallic thin films, explicit analytical…
A variational model is proposed to describe the magnetic properties of type-II superconductors in the entire field range between $H_{c1}$ and $H_{c2}$ for any values of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter $\kappa>1/\sqrt{2}$. The hexagonal unit…
Spatial variation in the superconducting order parameter becomes significant when the system is confined at dimensions well below the typical superconducting coherence length. Motivated by recent experimental success in growing…