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We develop an optimized perturbation theory for the Ginzburg - Landau description of thermal fluctuations effects in the vortex liquids. Unlike the high temperature expansion which is asymptotic, the optimized expansion is convergent.…
We have imaged spontaneously created arrays of vortices (magnetic flux quanta), generated in a superconducting film quenched through its transition temperature at rates around $10^9 K/s$. From these images, we calculated the positional…
We calculate the renormalized quartic vertex function of the Ginzburg-Landau model for a superconducting film in a magnetic field by summing an infinite subset of diagrams, the so-called parquet graphs. Using this non-perturbative solution,…
A new systematic calculation of magnetization and specific heat contributions of vortex liquids and solids (not very close to the melting line) is presented. We develop an optimized perturbation theory for the Ginzburg - Landau description…
We present results from extensive numerical simulations on the Lawrence-Doniach model within the lowest Landau level approximation in the unconventional spherical geometry. We study the in-layer pancake vortex density-density correlation…
To examine the field dependence of the vortex lattice melting transition in two-dimensional (2D) superconductors, Monte Carlo simulations of the 2D Ginzburg-Landau (GL) model are performed by extending the conventional lowest Landau level…
In this paper we consider the asymptotic behavior of the Ginzburg- Landau model for superconductivity in 3-d, in various energy regimes. We rigorously derive, through an analysis via {\Gamma}-convergence, a reduced model for the vortex…
The equilibrium dynamics of a thin film type II superconductor with spherical geometry are investigated numerically in a simulation based on the lowest Landau level approximation to the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation. Both the…
The equal-time pairing correlation function of the two-dimensional t-J model on a square lattice is studied using a high-temperature expansion method. The sum of the pairing correlation, its spatial dependence, and the correlation length…
We present results of Monte Carlo simulations of the two dimensional one-component plasma and of the Ginzberg-Landau model in the lowest Landau level approximation, with both charges and vortices respectively confined within a disc. In both…
Consistent perturbation theory for thermodynamical quantities in strongly type II superconductors in magnetic field at low temperatures is developed. It is complementary to the existing expansion valid at high temperatures. Magnetization…
Theory of melting of the vortex lattice in type II superconductors in the framework of Ginzburg - Landau approach is presented. The melting line location is determined and magnetization and specific heat jumps along it are calculated. The…
We report on a Monte-Carlo study of two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau superconductors in a magnetic field which finds clear evidence for a first-order phase transition characterized by broken translational symmetry of the superfluid density.…
A metastable homogeneous state exists down to zero temperature in systems of repelling objects. Zero ''fluctuation temperature'' liquid state therefore serves as a (pseudo) ''fixed point'' controlling the properties of vortex liquid below…
We use the three dimensional uniformly frustrated XY model, as a model for a high temperature superconductor in an applied magnetic field, to explicitly measure the longitudinal correlation length xi_z in the vortex line liquid phase. We…
We report results from Monte Carlo simulations of a thin film superconductor in a spherical geometry within the lowest Landau level approximation. We observe the absence of a phase transition to a low temperature vortex solid phase with…
The dynamics of 2D pancake vortices in Josephson-coupled superconducting/normal - metal multilayers is considered within the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory. For temperatures close to $T_{c}$ a viscous drag force acting on a moving 2D…
We have simulated the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation with thermal fluctuations, to study the nonlocal dc conductivity of a superconducting film. Having examined points in the phase diagram at a wide range of temperatures and fields…
Thermodynamics of type II superconductors in electromagnetic field based on the Ginzburg - Landau theory is presented. The Abrikosov flux lattice solution is derived using an expansion in a parameter characterizing the "distance" to the…
The flux line lattice melting transition in two-dimensional pure and disordered superconductors is studied by a Monte Carlo simulation using the lowest Landau level approximation and quasi-periodic boundary condition on a plane. The…