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By considering the Ginzburg-Landau model, compactified in one of the spatial dimensions, and using a modified Matsubara formalism, we determine the dependence of the superconducting transition temperature (T_c) of a film as a function of…
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…
A new description is proposed for the low-field critical behavior of type-II superconductors. The starting point is the Ginzburg-Landau theory in presence of an external magnetic field H. A set of fictitious vortex variables and a singular…
Magnetic properties of layered high temperature superconductors with a weak interlayer coupling in the region of the critical fluctuations are investigated in the framework of the Ginzburg--Landau approach. The sample magnetization is…
Based on the Ginzburg-Landau functional of E_{u} symmetry presented by Agterberg, vortex states of Sr_{2}RuO_{4} are studied in detail over $H_{c1}\lesssim H \leq H_{c2}$ by using the Landau-level expansion method. For the field in the…
A wide range of quasi-one-dimensional materials, consisting of weakly coupled chains, undergo three-dimensional phase transitions that can be described by a complex order parameter. A Ginzburg-Landau theory is derived for such a transition.…
The Ginzburg Landau theory for d_{x^2-y^2}-wave superconductors is constructed, by starting from the Gor'kov equation with including correction terms up to the next order of ln(T_c/T). Some of the non-local correction terms are found to…
We study the features of the superconductivity nucleation and vortex configurations in superconductors with modulated disorder. Using the Ginzburg-Landau-type theory with spatially varying diffusion coefficient, we uncover and explain the…
Persistent scaling behavior of magnetization in layered high $T_c$ superconductors with short--range columnar defects is explained within the Ginzburg Landau theory. In the weak field region, the scaling function differs from that of a…
We study the solid-liquid transition of a model of pancake vortices in laminar superconductors using a density functional theory of freezing. The physical properties of the system along the melting line are discussed in detail. We show that…
We consider the vortex matter in a three-dimensional two-component superconductor with individually conserved condensates with different bare phase stiffnesses in a finite magnetic field, such as the projected superconducting state of…
Using the high-sensitive mechanical method of measuring the dissipation processes in superconductors, the 3D-2D phase transition in magnetic field was investigated in the vortex lattice of strongly anisotropic high-temperature…
We have numerically studied the statics and dynamics of a model three-dimensional vortex lattice at low magnetic fields. For the statics we use a frustrated 3D XY model on a stacked triangular lattice. We model the dynamics as a coupled…
We study the phase diagram of a system of $2\times2\times2$ hard cubes on a three dimensional cubic lattice. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the system exhibits four different phases as the density of cubes is increased:…
We present a theory of vortex liquid-to-solid transition in homogeneous quasi 2D superconductors. The free energy is written as a functional l of density of zeroes of the fluctuating order parameter. The transition is weakly first-order and…
In Ginzburg-Landau theory, a strong magnetic field is responsible for the breakdown of superconductivity. This work is concerned with the identification of the region where superconductivity persists, in a thin shell superconductor modeled…
In clean enough samples of the high-$T_c$ oxide materials, the phase transition into the superconducting state occurs along a first order line in the $H$-$T$ plane. This means that a two-phase region occurs in the B-$T$ plane, in which the…
A two-component superconductor may hypothetically support a vestigial order phase above its superconducting transition temperature, with rotational or time-reversal symmetry spontaneously broken while remain non-superconducting. This has…
We present the first fully microscopic, self-consistent, and self-contained theory of superconducting weakly coupled periodic multilayers with tunnel barriers in the presence of externally applied parallel magnetic fields, in the local…
In this study, we present theoretical investigations of phase transitions and critical phenomena in materials through the lens of second-order Ginzburg-Landau theory, in conjunction with considerations of symmetry groups and thermal…