Critical Exponents of the Superconducting Phase Transition

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3 March 1995

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9503019

Abstract

We study the critical exponents of the superconducting phase transition in the context of renormalization group theory starting from a dual formulation of the Ginzburg-Landau theory. The dual formulation describes a loop gas of Abrikosov flux tubes which proliferate when the critical temperature is approached from below. In contrast to the Ginzburg-Landau theory, it has a spontaneously broken global symmetry and possesses an infrared stable fixed point. The exponents coincide with those of a superfluid with reversed temperature axis.

Keywords

SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE
CRITICAL EXPONENTS
DUAL FORMULATION
PHASE TRANSITION
GLOBAL SYMMETRY
TEMPERATURE
PROLIFERATE
EXPONENTS
GINZBURG

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