Inhomogeneous superconductors : granular and quantum effects / Eugen Šimánek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

S̆imánek, Eugen, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Superconductors.

Inhomogeneous materials.

Fluctuations (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Represents the unified treatment of an important field of research - the theory of quantum fluctuations in inhomogeneous superconductivity materials. This book can be used as a main or supplementary text in graduate courses on superconductivity, many-body systems, phase transitions, submicron physics, and surface science.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Dynamics and Fluctuations of the Order Parameter; 3. Regular Arrays without Dissipation; 4. Quantum Effects and Ohmic Dissipation; 5. Microscopic Theory of Superconducting Tunneling; 6. Phase Transitions in Dissipative Arrays; 7. Two-dimensional superconductors; 8. Dynamics and Quantum Tunneling of Vortices; A1. Partition Function for One-Body Motion; A2. Partition Function for N-body Systems and Fields; A3. Partition Function for a Particle on a Circle; A4. Free Particle on a Circle; A5. Particle on a Circle-High-Temperature Limit

A6. Perturbation Expansion for Thermal AveragesA7. Path Integral for the Correlation Function; A8. Correlation Function in the Classical Limit; A9. Derivation of Eq. (2.3); A10. Path integral for the transition amplitude; A11. Extremal path (bounce) and fluctuations about it; A12. Bounce contribution to the transition amplitude; A13. Expression for bounce action; A14. Dissipative action for weak damping; A15. Bounce trajectory for strong damping; A16. Cumulant expansion theorem for Z[sub(G)][Δ]; A17. Green's function in the presence of V (τ); References; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773236-4

1-280-52643-2

9786610526437

0-19-536013-3

1-4294-0560-0

OCLC:

476008040