Inhomogeneous Superconductors : Granular and Quantum Effects.
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 physic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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Colección: | International series of monographs on physics (Oxford, England)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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; A.