Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-852815-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, Band 127, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

Reihe: International Series of Monographs on Physics

This book presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarising the last thirty-five years of work in the field. The first part of the book is devoted to an extended discussion of the Ginzburg-Landau phenomenology of fluctuations in its thermodynamical and time-dependent versions and its various applications. The second part deals with microscopic justification of the Ginzburg-Landau approach and presents the diagrammatic theory of
fluctuations. The third part is devoted to a less-detailed review of the manifestation of fluctuations in observables: diamagnetism, magnetoconductivity, various tunneling characteristics, thermoelectricity, and NMR relaxation. The final chapters turn to the manifestation of fluctuations in unconventional
superconducting systems: nanodrops, nanorings, Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless state, quantum phase transition between superconductor and insulator, and thermal and quantum fluctuations in weak superconducting systems. The book ends with a brief discussion on theories of high temperature superconductivity, where fluctuations appear as the possible protagonist of this exciting phenomenon.

Zielgruppe

Graduates and resarchers working in the fields of condensed matter physics, superconductivity, statistical physics and the physics of phase transitions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larkin, Anatoly

Varlamov, Andrei

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Magnetismus
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Halbleiter- und Supraleiterphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Elektrizität, Elektrodynamik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme

Über Autor(innen)

Anatoly Larkin is William I. Fine and Bianca Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of Minnesota, USA as well as a principal researcher at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Russia.

Andrei Varlamov is a principal researcher at COHERENTIA-INFM in Rome.