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Thermodynamics of Gaussian fluctuations and paraconductivity in layered superconductors

Todor Mishonov·Evgeni Penev
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A detailed theoretical analysis of the Gaussian fluctuations of the order parameter in layered superconductors is performed within the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory. The available results for the Gaussian fluctuations are systematized and a number of novel formulae for the fluctuation magnetization, nonlinear magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity and high-frequency conductivity in layered superconductors are derived. We propose several new prescriptions: how to determine the life-time constant of fluctuation Cooper pairs tau_0, the in-plane coherence length xi_ab(0), the energy cutoff parameter e_cut=c hbar^2 / 2m_ab xi^2_ab(0), and the Ginzburg number e_Gi. It is demonstrated, for example, how the spectroscopy of the life-time can be used to verify the existence of depairing mechanisms in layered cuprates. The ultraviolet regularization of the GL free energy is carried out by means of the well-known from the field theory zeta-function method. We further show that the archetype of the latter method has its origin in the century of enlightenment and the novel result is that the fluctuation part of the thermodynamic variables of the layered superconductors can be expressed in terms of the Euler Gamma-function and its derivatives. Universal scaling curves for the magnetic field dependence of the paraconductivity sigma_ab(T_c,B), fluctuation magnetization M(T_c,B) and the heat capacity C(T_c,B) are found for the quasi-2D superconductors at T_c and further related to the form-factor of the Cooper pairs.

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Todor Mishonov, Evgeni Penev. 2001-05-22. Thermodynamics of Gaussian fluctuations and paraconductivity in layered superconductors. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217979200001680

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