Fluctuations in a mesoscopic superconducting ring: resonant behavior of conductivity and specific heat in two mode critical regime

Abstract

The critical fluctuations in a mesoscopic superconducting ring are studied within the Ginzburg-Landau approach. The nonlocal conductivity as well as the specific heat are calculated as functions of the magnetic flux $\Phi$ through the ring. At $\Phi ={\Phi }_0/2$ two low-energy eigenstates become degenerate and near this point the behavior of fluctuations-dependent quantities change dramatically: both the zero Fourier component ${\sigma }_0$ of the fluctuation conductivity and the specific heat become non-monotonic functions of $|\Phi -{\Phi }_0/2|$ with rather special resonant structure.

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