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

About the Author

Anatoly Larkin is William I. Fine and Bianca Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of Minnesota, USA as well as a principal researcher at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Russia. Andrei Varlamov is a principal researcher at COHERENTIA-INFM in Rome.

Reviews

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 establised workers in the field.
*James F. Annett, Physics Today*