Title: Inhomogeneous superconductors : granular and quantum effects /
Authors: S̆imánek, Eugen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Superconductors.; Inhomogeneous materials; Fluctuations (Physics)
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 Averages -- A7. 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.