Overview

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.

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Author:   Anatoly Larkin (Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, USA and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia.) ,  Andrei Varlamov (COHERENTIA-INFM, Rome, Italy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   127
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.751kg
ISBN:  

9780199564835

ISBN 10:   0199564833
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   04 June 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors is a thorough and timely book aimed at both theorists and experimentalists interested in current topics in superconductivity. The book will be a useful guide and reference for graduate students and established workers in the field. James F. Annett, Physics Today

Author Information

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.

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