Fluctuation effects nearin type-II superconductors
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 31 (11) , 7124-7132
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.31.7124
Abstract
Abrikosov’s mean-field theory of type-II superconductors predicts an unusual continuous freezing transition to a triangular flux lattice at . We show that fluctuations, which are negligible above d=6, drive this transition first order to lowest order in an expansion in ε=6-d.
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