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Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2005
ISBN
0198528159, 9780198528159, 9781423786597
LCC
QC611.95 .L37 2005
Open Library ID
OL22613934M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1013 kB (1037327 bytes)
Series
International Series of Monographs on Physics
Pages
243\243
Topic
Physics
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

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.

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