Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors

Anatoly Larkin, Andrei Varlamov - Collection International Series of Monographs on Physics

430 pages, parution le 03/03/2005

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Major topic in modern condensed matter physics
Complete encyclopedia, summarising 35 years of work in the field
Comprehensive review of modern theory
Written by leading experts in field

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.

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

L'auteur - Anatoly Larkin

Anatoly Larkin, Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, USA and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia.

L'auteur - Andrei Varlamov

Andrei Varlamov, COHERENTIA-INFM, Rome, Italy

Sommaire

Phenomenology of fluctuations: Ginzburg-Landau formalism
- Introduction
- Fluctuation thermodynamics
- Fluctuation transport
- Fluctuations in vortex structures
Basic notions of the microscopic theory
- Microscopic derivation of the TDGL equation
- Microscopic derivation of the Ginzburg Landau functional
- Microscopic theory of fluctuation conductivity
Manifestation of fluctuations in observables
- Fluctuations in magnetic field
- Density of states and tunneling
- Effect of fluctuations on thermoelectricity and heat transport
- Spin susceptibility and NMR
Fluctuations in nanostructures and unconventional superconducting systems
- Fluctuations in nanograins, nanodrops and granular superconductors
- Fluctuations in Josephson junctions
- Phase slip events
- Phase fluctuations in two-dimensional superconducting systems
- Fluctuations near superconductor-insulator transition
- Role of fluctuations in high-temperature superconductivity

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Anatoly Larkin, Andrei Varlamov
Collection	International Series of Monographs on Physics
Parution	03/03/2005
Nb. de pages	430
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	750g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198528159
ISBN13	978-0-19-852815-9