Lifshitz tricritical point and its relation to the FFLO superconducting state

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2013.04.025zbMATH Open1302.82127arXiv1210.2205OpenAlexW1966386775MaRDI QIDQ401684FDOQ401684

Authors: Arghya Dutta, Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee 

Publication date: 27 August 2014

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the phase diagram of spatially inhomogeneous Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov(FFLO) superconducting state using the Ginzburg-Landau(GL) free energy, derived from the microscopic Hamiltonian of the system, and notice that it has a very clear Lifshitz tricritical point. We find the specific heat jumps abruptly near the first-order line in the emergent phase diagram which is very similar to the recent experimental observation in layered organic superconductor. Comparison with experimental data allows us to obtain quantitative relations between the parameters of phenomenological free energy. The region of the phase diagram where the specific heat jumps can be probed by doing a dynamical analysis of the free energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2205

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zbMATH Keywords

Ginzburg-Landautwo-fluidheat capacityphenomenological theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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• Scaling in a temperature quench in systems with a Lifshitz point: nonconserved and conserved order parameters
• NANOSCALE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

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