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Upper critical field in dirty two-band superconductors: Breakdown of the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau theory

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 68, Issue 10, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.104503

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We investigate the upper critical field in a dirty two-band superconductor within quasiclassical Usadel equations. The regime of very high anisotropy in the quasi-2D band, relevant for MgB2, is considered. We show that strong disparities in pairing interactions and diffusion constant anisotropies for two bands influence the in-plane H-c2 in a different way at high and low temperatures. This causes temperature-dependent H-c2 anisotropy, in accordance with recent experimental data in MgB2. The three-dimensional band most strongly influences the in-plane H-c2 near T-c, in the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) region. However, due to a very large difference between the c-axis coherence lengths in the two bands, the GL theory is applicable only in an extremely narrow temperature range near T-c. The angular dependence of H-c2 deviates from a simple effective-mass law even near T-c.

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