Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198528159)

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.

Author: Anatoly Larkin,Andrei Varlamov
ISBN-10: 0198528159
ISBN-13: 9780198528159
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2005
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.36w x 1.08d