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We calculate the upper critical magnetic field H c2 in the framework of a microscopic superconductivity theory with two energy bands of different dimensions on the Fermi surface with the cavity topology typical of the compound MgB2 taken into account (an anisotropic system). We assume an external magnetic field parallel to the crystallographic z axis. We obtain analytic formulas in the low-temperature range (T/Tc ≪ 1) and also near the critical temperature ((T-Tc)/Tc ≪ 1). We compare the temperature dependence of Hc2 for a two-band anisotropic system with that of H 0c2 corresponding to a two-band isotropic system (with Fermi-surface cavities of the same topology). We determine the role of the band-structure anisotropy, the positive curvature of the upper critical field near the critical temperature, and the important role of the ratio v1/v2 of the velocities on the Fermi surface in determining Hc2. We also obtain the values of the parameters Δ1 and Δ2 along the line of the critical magnetic field.
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This paper is dedicated to the 90th birthday of Professor D. N. Zubarev
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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 113–128, January, 2008.
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Moskalenko, V.A., Palistrant, M.E. & Ursu, V.A. Microscopic theory of superconductivity in MgB2-type systems in a magnetic field: A neighborhood of H c2 . Theor Math Phys 154, 94–107 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-008-0009-8
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