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We investigate the upper critical field in a dirty two-band superconductor within quasiclassical Usadel equations. The regime of very high anisotropy in the quasi-2D band, relevant for MgB$_{2}$, is considered. We show that strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Golubov , A. E. Koshelev

Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates, understanding the unconventional pairing mechanism has remained one of the most significant challenges. The upper critical field ($H_{\rm{c2}}$) is an essential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-21 Wei Wei , Yuling Xiang , Qiang Hou , Yue Sun , Zhixiang Shi

We calculate the Pauli-limited upper critical field and the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) instability for {\it dirty} d-wave superconductors within the quasiclassical theory using the self-consistent $\hat{t}$-matrix approximation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-14 A. B. Vorontsov , I. Vekhter , M. J. Graf

The paraconductivity, originating from critical superconducting order-parameter fluctuations in the vicinity of the critical temperature in a layered superconductor is calculated in the frame of the self-consistent Hartree approximation,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Puica , W. Lang

Here we report the comparison of the upper critical fields of different superconductors being calculated by two different theories i.e., Werthamer Helfand Hohenburg (WHH) and Ginzberg Landau (GL). All the samples are synthesized through…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-17 R. Sultana , P. Rani , A. K. Hafiz , Reena Goyal , V. P. S. Awana

We present a study of the upper critical field of the newly discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ by magnetoresistivity measurements in pulsed magnetic fields up to 60~T and static magnetic fields up to 35~T. We show that…

An interpretation of the quadratic parameter of the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity is presented in this paper. The negative term in the potential, which allows the spontaneous symmetry breaking, is interpreted as a direct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-15 Miguel C. N. Fiolhais , Joseph L. Birman

We address a problem of the upper critical field in a lattice described by a two-dimensional tight-binding model with the on-site pairing. We develop a finite-system-approach which enables investigation of magnetic and superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcin Mierzejewski , Maciej M. Maska

Superconducting materials are of significant technological relevance for a broad range of applications, and intense research efforts aim at enhancing the critical temperature $T_{c}$. Intriguingly, while numerous studies have explored…

We report detailed measurements of the interlayer magnetoresistance of the layered organic superconductor $\kappa -(BEDT-TTF)_2Cu(SCN)_2$ for temperatures down to 0.5 K and fields up to 30 tesla. The upper critical field is determined from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Zuo , J. S. Brooks , Ross H. McKenzie , J. A. Schlueter , Jack M. Williams

We present new upper critical field Hc2(T) data in a broad temperature region from 0.3K to Tc for LuNi2B2C and YNi2B2C single crystals with well characterized low impurity scattering rates. The absolute values for all T, in particular…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 S. V. Shulga , S. -L. Drechsler , G. Fuchs , K. -H. Mueller , K. Winzer , M. Heinecke , K. Krug

The electromagnetic properties of superconductors near a ferromagnetic instability are investigated by means of a generalized Ginzburg-Landau theory. It is found that the magnetic flux expulsion capability of the superconductor gets…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Qi Li , D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

The upper critical magnetic field H_{c2} in thin-film FSF trilayer spin-valve cores is studied experimentally and theoretically in geometries perpendicular and parallel to the heterostructure surface. The series of samples with variable…

We present resistivity measurements of the upper critical field (H$_{c2}$) phase diagram as a function of temperature (T) for Nd$_{1.85}$Ce$_{0.15}$CuO$_{4+\delta}$/SrTiO$_3$ single crystal films with different degree of disorder ($\delta$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 T. B. Charikova , N. G. Shelushinina , G. I. Harus , D. S. Petukhov , V. N. Neverov , A. A. Ivanov

Upper critical field, H_c2, in quasi-1D superconductors is investigated by the weak coupling renormalization group technique. It is shown that H_c2 greatly exceeds not only the Pauli limit, but also the conventional paramagnetic limit of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuki Fuseya , Claude Bourbonnais , Kazumasa Miyake

Magnetic properties of the novel layered superconductor, Na$_{0.35}$CoO$_{2}$$\cdot$1.3H$_{2}$O have been investigated. From the temperature dependence and field dependence of the magnetization, the superconducting transition temperature,…

We calculate the upper critical field, Hc2(T), due to the orbital pair breaking in disordered superconductors without inversion symmetry. Differences from the usual centrosymmetric case are highlighted. The linearized gap equations in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 K. V. Samokhin

We study the properties of the upper critical field of superconductivity in nodal-line semimetals in a continuous model, which has a nodal-line on the $k_{z} = 0$ plane. Using the semiclassical Green's function method, we calculate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-12 Junya Endo , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masao Ogata

Detailed Fermi-surface structures are essential to describe the upper critical field $H_{c2}$ in type-II superconductors, as first noticed by Hohenberg and Werthamer [Phys. Rev. {\bf 153}, 493 (1967)] and shown explicitly by Butler for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Takafumi Kita , Masao Arai

In the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau equation, the temperature dependence of the upper critical field of small ring-like superconductors is studied. At equilibrium small parts of the phase diagram show paramagnetism for width / radius…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Meyers