1995/09/06 by Igor F. Herbut, Zlatko Tešanović, Zlatko Tesanovic · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0921-4534(95)00613-3
published as Physica C, 255, (1995), 324 · 10 pages, Latex, two figures available on request, Latex error in the earlier version is corrected
arxiv created 1995/09/06 · openalex publication_date 1995/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We calculate the transition line of the first-order melting of vortex lattice in a three-dimensional type-II superconductor in fields of several Tesla, using the results from the density-functional theory of vortex melting in two dimensions and the self-consistent Hartree treatment of correlations along the field. The result is in quantitative agreement with experiment. The temperature width of the hysteresis, the latent heat, the Debye-Waller factor and the magnetization at the transition are discussed.