Pauli-limited superconductors with fluctuating magnetic moments

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2008

Abstract

We examine the phase diagram of a paramagnetically limited superconductor in the presence of fluctuating magnetic moments, under an applied magnetic field. We consider a Ginzburg-Landau functional for the superconducting order and include classical (Gaussian) fluctuations of the magnetization. We locate the tricritical point between the first and the second order transitions and analyze the properties of the modulated (Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov, FFLO-like) superconducting phase in its vicinity. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physica B: Condensed Matter

First Page

1083

Last Page

1085

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