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We solve the problem of exact minimization of the Lawrence-Doniach (LD) free-energy functional in parallel magnetic fields. We consider both the infinite in the layering direction case (the infinite LD model) and the finite one (the finite…
We consider the Lawrence-Doniach model for layered superconductors, in which stacks of parallel superconducting planes are coupled via the Josephson effect. We assume that the superconductor is placed in an external magnetic field oriented…
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 the recent Comment [V. M. Krasnov, Phys. Rev. B vol. 65, 096503 (2002)], the author claims to have ''disproved'' our theoretical conclusion [S. V. Kuplevakhsky, Phys. Rev. B vol. 60, 7496 (1999); Phys. Rev. B vol. 63, 054508 (2001)] that…
In this paper we study the Lawrence-Doniach model for layered superconductors, for a sample with finite width subjected to a magnetic field parallel to the superconducting layers. We provide a rigorous analysis of the energy minimizers in…
We study minimizers of the Lawrence--Doniach energy, which describes equilibrium states of superconductors with layered structure, assuming Floquet-periodic boundary conditions. Specifically, we consider the effect of a constant magnetic…
The present paper develops the ideas introduced in {\em cond-mat/0312673}. The construction of a hybrid discrete-continuous model of layered superconductors is briefly presented. The model bases on the classic Lawrence-Doniach scenario with…
We report on a Monte Carlo study of the lowest-Landau-level limit of the Lawrence-Doniach model for a layered superconductor. We have studied order parameter correlation functions for indications of the broken translational symmetry and the…
We present an exact mathematical description of the Meissner effect and of the vortex state in periodic thin-layer superconductor/insulator structures with an arbitrary number of identical junctions N-1 (N is the number of superconducting…
The present paper is an extension of 'cond-mat/0312673'. The construction of a hybrid discrete-continuous model of layered superconductors is presented. The model bases on the classic Lawrence-Doniach scenario with admitting, however,…
The equivalence between the Lawrence-Doniach model for films of extreme type-II layered superconductors and a generalization of the back-scattering model for spin-1/2 electrons in one dimension is demonstrated. This fermion analogy is then…
We discussed exact solutions of the Schroedinger equation for a two-dimensional parabolic confinement potential in a homogeneous external magnetic field. It turns out that the two-electron system is exactly solvable in the sense, that the…
We analyze minimizers of the Lawrence-Doniach energy for three-dimensional highly anisotropic superconductors with layered structure. For such a superconductor occupying a bounded generalized cylinder in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with equally spaced…
We present an exact mathematical description of Josephson vortices and of the Meissner effect in periodic thin-layer superconductor/insulator structures with an arbitrary number of identical junctions N-1 (N is the number of superconducting…
We analyze minimizers of the Lawrence-Doniach energy for layered superconductors occupying a bounded generalized cylinder, $ \Omega\times[0,L]$, in $\mathbb{R}^3$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded simply connected Lipschitz domain in…
Many superconducting materials are composed of weakly coupled conducting layers. Such a layered structure has a very strong influence on the properties of vortex matter in a magnetic field. This review focuses on the properties of the…
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…
The interaction of an edge dislocation made of half the superconducting plane with a magnetic interlayer vortex is considered within the framework of the Lawrence-Doniach model with negative as well as positive Josephson interlayer…
We study the melting of the pancake vortex lattice in a layered superconductor in the limit of vanishing Josephson coupling. Our approach combines the methodology of a recently proposed mean-field substrate model for such systems with the…
Poisson-Boltzmann theory is the cornerstone for soft matter electrostatics. We provide novel exact analytical solutions to this non-linear mean-field approach, for the diffuse layer of ions in the vicinity of a planar or a cylindrical…