Abstract
The Ginzburg-Landau theory is used to calculate perturbatively the influence of stochastic inhomogeneities on the smearing of the specific heat jump in three-dimensional superconductors. The small-scale and large-scale (compared to the correlation length) inhomogeneities are simultaneously taken into account to derive a finite and continuous (in the vicinity of T c ) expression for the temperature dependence of the superconductor specific heat.
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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 72, No. 2, 2000, pp. 94–98.
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