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This paper reviews our recent work on the melting of three-dimensional flux lattices in layered high-Tc superconductors within the lowest Landau level (LLL) approximation. In our approach, the superconducting order parameter is expanded in basis functions which consist of products of LLL states in the ab plane and Bloch functions in the c direction. The thermodynamic properties are then obtained via Monte Carlo simulations. This approach generally yields a single melting transition, at which long range order within the ab plane and in the c direction disappear simultaneously. It yields results in good agreement with experiment for the melting curve and magnetization of several high-Tc superconductors
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Stroud, D., Šášik, R. (1997). Flux Lattice Melting in the Lowest Landau Level Approximation: Results in Three Dimensions. In: Ausloos, M., Varlamov, A.A. (eds) Fluctuation Phenomena in High Temperature Superconductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5536-6_18
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