Nonequilibrium mesoscopic superconductors in a fluctuational regime
Abstract
We develop a non-equilibrium Ginzburg-Landau-type theory of the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of superconductors in a fluctuational regime and apply our approach to quantitative description of a superconductor island in a stationary nonequilibrium state. We derive the effective temperature of the nonequilibrium state and find fluctuational contributions to the magnetic susceptibility showing that it becomes a singular function of \sqrt{V-V_c} , where V is the external drive and Vc is its "critical" value at which the nonequilibrium phase transition takes place.
- Publication:
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EPL (Europhysics Letters)
- Pub Date:
- November 2009
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0812.2372
- Bibcode:
- 2009EL.....8847001C
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 1 figure