Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1998-01-28
Phys. Rev. B59, 6449 (1999)
Physics
Condensed Matter
28 RevTeX pages, 4 .ps figures; appendix A added, additional references, streamlined Secs. IV and V in response to referees' c
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.59.6449
A theory of critical fluctuations in extreme type-II superconductors subjected to a finite but weak external magnetic field is presented. It is shown that the standard Ginzburg-Landau representation of this problem can be recast, with help of a novel mapping, as a theory of a new "superconductor", in an effective magnetic field whose overall value is zero, consisting of the original uniform field and a set of neutralizing unit fluxes attached to $N_{\Phi}$ fluctuating vortex lines. The long distance behavior is related to the anisotropic gauge theory in which the original magnetic field plays the role of "charge". The consequences of this "gauge theory" scenario for the critical behavior in high temperature superconductors are explored in detail, with particular emphasis on questions of 3D XY vs. Landau level scaling, physical nature of the vortex "line liquid" and the true normal state, and fluctuation thermodynamics and transport. A "minimal" set of requirements for the theory of vortex-lattice melting in the critical region is also proposed and discussed.
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