Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors (International Series of Monographs on Physics)
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
EAN (European Article Number): 9780198528159
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Anatoly Larkin::Andrei Varlamov
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Dewey Decimal Number: 537.6236
Publication Date: 2005-03-17
Reading Level: 430
Description: This book presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarizing 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.
