The effect of topological fluctuations on the heat capacity of superconductor |
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Authors: | Y N Ovchinnikov A A Varlamov |
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Institution: | (1) Max-Plank Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, 01187 Germany and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, 142432, Russia;(2) Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne Il 60439 and Coherentia-INFM, CNR, Viale del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy |
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Abstract: | The effect of topological excitations in the form of small size (r ≪ξ(T))
vortex rings on thermodynamics of a bulk superconductor is considered. These
specific short wavelength fluctuations of the order parameter are analogous to
small vortex-antivortex pairs in superconducting film which were recently
studied in Y.N. Ovchinnikov, A.A. Varlamov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 107007 (2004). The corresponding contribution to the free energy
below Tc is calculated. It is shown that fluctuations of this type give
the main temperature dependent contribution to the heat capacity of the
superconductor in the sufficiently large interval of temperatures below the
transition point. Important, that the sign of this contribution is opposite to
that one appearing due to the usual long wavelength fluctuation, leading to
smearing of the BCS jump of heat capacity. |
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Keywords: | 05 70 Fh Phase transitions: general studies 74 25 Qt Vortex lattices flux pinning flux creep |
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