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We analyze a mean field model for $3$d anisotropic superconductors with a layered structure, in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The mean field model arises as the $Gamma$-limit of the Lawrence-Doniach energy in certain regimes. A…
The value of the upper critical field Hc2, a fundamental characteristic of the superconducting state, has been subject to strong controversy in high-Tc copper-oxides. Since the issue has been tackled almost exclusively by macroscopic…
We study Hubbard models for ultracold bosonic or fermionic atoms loaded into an optical lattice. The atoms carry a high spin $F>1/2$, and interact on site via strong repulsive Van der Waals forces. Making convenient rearrangements of the…
We report a systematic study of high magnetic field specific heat and resistivity in single crystals of CeCoIn_5 for the field oriented in the basal plane (H//ab) of this tetragonal heavy fermion superconductor. We observe a divergent…
We present measurements of the superconducting critical temperature Tc and upper critical field Hc2 as a function of pressure in the transition metal dichalcogenide 2H-NbS2 up to 20 GPa. We observe that Tc increases smoothly from 6K at…
We consider a two-chain, spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin ladder in an external magnetic field H. The spin ladder is known to undergo second order quantum phase transitions (QPTs) at two critical values, Hc1 and Hc2, of the…
We study the slopes of the upper critical field $\partial_{T}H_{c2}|_{T_{c}}\equiv\partial H_{_{c2}}/\partial T$ at $T_{c}$ in anisotropic superconductors with transport (non-magnetic) scattering employing the Ginzburg-Landau theory,…
We report the effect of Nb doping on the upper critical field of the cubic Laves-phase superconductor HfV$_{2}$ studied in a series of HfV$_{2-x}$Nb$_{x}$ samples with 0 $\leq$ $x$ $\leq$ 0.3 under pulsed fields up to 30 T. The undoped…
The discovery of superconductivity in the heavy-fermion paramagnet UTe$_2$ has attracted a lot of attention, particularly due to the reinforcement of superconductivity near pressure- and magnetic-field-induced magnetic quantum phase…
The upper critical field of multiband superconductors is an important quantity that can reveal the details about the nature of the superconducting pairing. Here we experimentally map out the complete upper critical field phase diagram of a…
We studied a method of measuring upper critical field (H$_{c2}$) of a superconductor based on the width of $\Delta$H = $\Delta$B region, which appears in the superconductor that volume defects are many and dominant. Here we present the…
We calculate the upper critical field in superconductors without inversion symmetry at arbitrary temperatures, in the presence of scalar impurities. Both orbital and spin (paramagnetic) mechanisms of pair breaking are considered. The…
The origin for the upward curvature of the upper critical field ($H_{c2}$) observed in hydrate cobaltate Na$_{0.35}$CoO$_{2} \cdot y$H$_{2}$O is investigated based on the microscopic gap equation. It is shown that the observed upward…
For the first time, a detailed analysis of the behaviour of the temperature dependences of the upper critical fields Hc2(T) has been carried out in the compounds (Dy1-xErx)Rh3.8Ru0.2B4 (x = 0, 0.2, 0.4). It is found that the Hc2(T) in…
The magnetic properties of the two-site Hubbard cluster (dimer or pair), embedded in the external electric and magnetic fields and treated as the open system, are studied by means of the exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. The…
We study theoretically the transition temperature of a quasi-one-dimensional anisotropic superconductor in a magnetic field, which is thought to be realized in organic conductors,(TMTSF)2X. In the weak field limit,-dH_c2/dT for the…
We report detailed studies of the upper critical field and low-temperature specific heat in the two-gap superconductor Lu$_{2}$Fe$_{3}$Si$_{5}$. The anisotropy of the upper critical field suggests that the active band is…
We present a systematic study of the magnetization in YbRh$_{2}$Si$_{2}$ under slightly negative (6?% Ir substitution) and positive (7% Co substitution) chemical pressure. We show how the critical field $H_{0}$, associated with the…
We study the Fermi level structure of (2+1)-dimensional strongly interacting electron systems in external magnetic field using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The gravity dual of a finite density fermion system is a Dirac field in the…
We introduce a critical-state model incorporating the anisotropy of flux-line pinning to analyze the critical states developing in an anisotropic biaxial superconducting slab exposed to a uniform perpendicular magnetic field and to two…