Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors

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

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

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Phenomenology of fluctuations: Ginzburg-Landau formalism

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Fluctuation thermodynamics

- 3: Fluctuation transport

- 4: Fluctuations in vortex structures

- Basic notions of the microscopic theory

- 5: Microscopic derivation of the TDGL equation

- 6: Microscopic derivation of the Ginzburg Landau functional

- 7: Microscopic theory of fluctuation conductivity

- Manifestation of fluctuations in observables

- 8: Fluctuations in magnetic field

- 9: Density of states and tunneling

- 10: Effect of fluctuations on thermoelectricity and heat transport

- 11: Spin susceptibility and NMR

- Fluctuations in nanostructures and unconventional superconducting systems

- 12: Fluctuations in nanograins, nanodrops and granular superconductors

- 13: Fluctuations in Josephson junctions

- 14: Phase slip events

- 15: Phase fluctuations in two-dimensional superconducting systems

- 16: Fluctuations near superconductor-insulator transition

- 17: Role of fluctuations in high-temperature superconductivity

- 18: Appendices

- 19: Glossary

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.