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Self-Consistent Two-Gap Description Of Mgb₂ Superconductor, Hyunsoo Kim, Kyuil Cho, Makariy A. Tanatar, Valentin Taufour, Stella K. Kim, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Paul C. Canfield, Vladimir G. Kogan, Ruslan Prozorov

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A self-consistent two-gap γ-model is used to quantitatively describe several thermodynamic properties of MgB₂ superconductor. The superconducting coupling matrix, vij, was obtained from the fitting of the superfluid density in the entire superconducting temperature range. Using this input, temperature-dependent superconducting gaps, specific heat, and upper critical fields were calculated with no adjustable parameters and compared with the experimental data as well as with the first-principles calculations. The observed agreement between fit and data shows that γ-model provides adequate quantitative description of the two-gap superconductivity in MgB₂ and may serve as a relatively simple and versatile self-consistent description of …