Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-956483-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 751 g

This book presents a complete encyclopaedia 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larkin, Anatoly

Varlamov, Andrei

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Elektrizität, Elektrodynamik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Magnetismus
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Halbleiter- und Supraleiterphysik

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)

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

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