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In superconductors with large values of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter, exposed to magnetic fields close to the upper critical field, the magnetic field is practically homogeneous across the sample and the density of supercurrents is…
We employ the weak-coupling renormalization group approach to study unconventional superconducting phases emerging in the extended, repulsive Hubbard model on paradigmatic two-dimensional lattices. Repulsive interactions usually lead to…
Some relevant transport properties of solids do not depend only on the spectrum of the electronic Hamiltonian, but on finer properties preserved only by unitary equivalence, the most striking example being the conductance. When interested…
We discuss the effects of a magnetic field applied parallel to the Cu-O ($ab$) plane of the high $T_c$ cuprate superconductors. After briefly reviewing the Zeeman effect of the field, we study the orbital effects, using the Lawrence-Doniach…
At high magnetic fields and low temperatures, numerous extreme type-II superconductors exhibit Landau quantization of electronic motion. We present an analytic construction of the quasiparticle spectrum in this regime, based on the…
We study the superconducting order in a two-dimensional square lattice Hubbard model with weak repulsive interactions, subject to a Zeeman field and weak Rashba spin-orbit interactions. Diagonalizing the non-interacting Hamiltonian leads to…
We derive the quasiclassical equations that describe two-dimensional superconductors with a large Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in the presence of impurities. These equations account for the helical phase induced by an in-plane magnetic…
The purpose of this research is to study the upper critical field (Hc2) of two-band superconductors by two-band Ginzburg - Landau approach. The analytical formula of Hc2 included anisotropy of order parameter and anisotropy of…
Boundary conditions for a superconducting order parameter at a diffusive scattering boundary are derived from microscopic theory. The results indicate that for all but isotropic gap functions the diffusive boundary almost completely…
I present a Ginzburg-Landau theory for hexagonal oscillations of the upper critical field of UPt$_3$ near $T_c$. The model is based on a $2D$ representation for the superconducting order parameter, $\vec{\eta}=(\eta_1,\eta_2)$, coupled to…
In this work we present a model for the photoconductivity of two-dimensional electron system in a perpendicular homogeneous magnetic field, a weak lateral superlattice, and exposed to millimeter irradiation. The model includes the microwave…
This paper presents the effects of non-minimal Lorentz-violation operators in superconductivity. By constructing a Lorentz-Violating Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity with a five-dimensional operator, we discuss the influence of…
We address the macroscopic theory of superconductivity - the Ginzburg-Landau theory. This theory %Macroscopic theory of superconductivity is based on the celebrated Ginzburg - Landau equations. First developed to explain and predict…
In contrast to single-component superconductors, which are described at the level of Ginzburg-Landau theory by a single parameter \kappa and are divided in type-I \kappa<1/\sqrt{2} and type-II \kappa>1/\sqrt{2} classes, two-component…
Reentrant superconductivity is a phenomenon in which the destructive effects of magnetic field on superconductivity are mitigated, allowing a zero-resistance state to survive under conditions that would otherwise destroy it. Typically, the…
We formulate non-Hermitian Landau levels in two-dimensional systems under a complex perpendicular magnetic field. In the symmetric gauge, we derive their discretely spaced, highly degenerate complex spectra and biorthogonal eigenstates, and…
Microscopic theory of the normal-to-superconductor coexistence line of a 2D two-band Weyl superconductor subjected to magnetic field is constructed. It is shown that a Weyl semi-metal that is nonsuperconducting or having a small critical…
The classical criterion for classification of superconductors as type-I or type-II based on the isotropic Ginzburg-Landau theory is generalized to arbitrary temperatures for materials with anisotropic Fermi surfaces and order parameters. We…
We predict a new effect in condensed matter surface magnetization of the vortex phase of a superconductor induced by electric field. The magnetized superconductor should be one of the plates of a plane capacitor on which a voltage has to be…
We propose a mechanism by which the paramagnetic pair-breaking effect is largely reduced in superconductors with coexisting antiferromagnetic long- range and short-range orders. The mechanism is an extension of the Jaccarino and Peter…