Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 097004 (2004) [4 pages]

Critical Dynamics of Superconductors in the Charged Regime

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Courtney Lannert1, Smitha Vishveshwara2, and Matthew P. A. Fisher3
1Department of Physics, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481-8203, USA
2Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA
3Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4030, USA

Received 25 August 2003; published 5 March 2004

We investigate the finite temperature critical dynamics of three-dimensional superconductors in the charged regime, described by a transverse gauge field coupling to the superconducting order parameter. Assuming relaxational dynamics for both the order parameter and the gauge fields, within a dynamical renormalization group scheme, we find a new dynamic universality class characterized by a finite fixed point ratio between the transport coefficients associated with the order parameter and gauge fields, respectively. We find signatures of this universality class in various measurable physical quantities, and in the existence of a universal amplitude ratio formed by a combination of physical quantities.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.097004
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.097004
PACS: 74.25.Bt, 74.20.–z, 74.25.Fy, 74.40.+k

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