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Theory of weak localization in two-dimensional high-mobility semiconductor systems is developed with allowance for the spin-orbit interaction. The obtained expressions for anomalous magnetoresistance are valid in the whole range of…
We discuss the influence of the electromagnetic environment and the electron-electron interaction on the weak localization correction to the conductivity of a disordered metal. The theory of this phenomenon for sufficiently high…
Weak localization and weak anti-localization are quantum interference effects in quantum transport in a disordered electron system. Weak anti-localization enhances the conductivity and weak localization suppresses the conductivity with…
When superconducting (SC) and charge-density wave (CDW) orders compete, novel low temperature behaviors can result. From an analysis of the Landau-Ginzberg-Wilson theory of competing orders, we demonstrate the generic occurrence of a…
We evaluate accurate low-field/low-temperature asymptotics of the thermal conductivity perpendicular to magnetic field for one-band and two-band s-wave superconductors using Keldysh-Usadel formalism. We show that heat transport in this…
Dependences of low temperature behavior and anisotropy of various physical quantities for pure unconventional superconductors upon a particular form of momentum direction dependence for the superconducting order parameter (within the…
The superfluid properties of the attractive Hubbard model in a Zeeman magnetic field, and in the weak coupling regime have been investigated. The temperature and magnetic field dependencies of the order parameter have been analyzed.…
Interband pairing in multiband superconductors is often neglected because of its higher energetic cost compared with intraband pairing. We show that, in multiband systems, a Zeeman magnetic field can stabilize interband pairing through the…
We calculated the weak localization correction to the density of the transmission eigenvalues in the case of chaotic quantum dots in the framework of Random Matrix Theory including the parametric dependence on the magnetic field and…
Combining scattering matrix formalism with non-linear $\sigma$-model technique we analyze weak localization effects in arrays of chaotic quantum dots connected via barriers with arbitrary distribution of channel transmissions. With the aid…
The interplay between electron-electron interactions and weak localization (or anti-localization) phenomena in two-dimensional systems can significantly enhance the superconducting transition temperature. We develop the theory of quantum…
Theory of weak localization is developed for electrons in semiconductor quantum wells grown along [110] and [111] crystallographic axes. Anomalous conductivity correction caused by weak localization is calculated for symmetrically doped…
The dependence of the localization length on the number of occupied subbands $N$ in low-dimensional semiconductors is investigated. The localization length is shown to be proportional to the number of occupied subbands in…
The physics of low-energy quasi-particle excitations in disordered d-wave superconductors is a subject of ongoing intensive research. Over the last decade, a variety of conceptually and methodologically different approaches to the problem…
The diagrammatic approach is applied to study quasiparticle transport properties in two-dimensional d-wave superconductors with dilute nonmagnetic impurities both in Born and in unitary limits. It is found that a novel quantum interference…
The exact expression for the phase-dependent linear conductance of a weakly damped superconducting quantum point contact is obtained. The calculation is performed by summing up the complete perturbative series in the coupling between the…
We develop a semi-quantitative theory of electron pairing and resulting superconductivity in bulk "poor conductors" in which Fermi energy $E_F$ is located in the region of localized states not so far from the Anderson mobility edge $E_c$.…
The field dependence of low-temperature thermal conductivity $\kappa(H)$ observed on cuprates is explained by calculating $\kappa(H)$ microscopically. The heat current carried by low-lying quasiparticles around a vortex core decreases with…
We define a current-conserving approximation for the local conductivity tensor of a disordered system which includes the effects of weak localization. Using this approximation we show that the weak localization effect in conductance is not…
Influence of disorder on the temperature of superconducting transition (T_c) is studied within the sigma-model renormalization group framework. Electron-electron interaction in particle-hole and Cooper channels is taken into account and…