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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.177004
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- NSF [DMR-1105339, DMR-1151717]
- Division Of Materials Research [1105339] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We theoretically investigate the appearance of spatially modulated superconducting states in mesoscopic superconducting thin-wall cylinders in a magnetic field at low temperatures. Quantization of the electron motion around the circumference of the cylinder leads to a discontinuous evolution of the spatial modulation of the superconducting order parameter along the transition line T-c(H). We show that this discontinuity leads to the nonmonotonic behavior of the specific heat jump at the onset of superconductivity as a function of temperature and field. We argue that this geometry provides an excellent opportunity to directly and unambiguously detect distinctive signatures of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov modulation of the superconducting order. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.177004
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