Phase Transition Approach to High Temperature Superconductivity : Universal Properties of Cuprate Superconductors
T. Schneider
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Singapore : : World Scientific Publishing Company, , 2000.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (444 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Cuprate superconductors; 1.1.1 Structure; 1.1.2 Doping; 1.1.3 Effective mass anisotropy and spatial dimensionality; 1.1.4 Pseudogap; 1.1.5 Symmetry of the order parameter; 1.1.6 Importance of critical fluctuations; 1.2 Universal critical properties of continuous phase transitions; 1.2.1 Static critical properties at finite temperature; 1.2.2 Dynamic critical properties at finite temperature; 1.2.3 Quantum critical properties; 1.3 Finite size effect and corrections to scaling; Further reading; Chapter 2 Ginzburg - Landau phenomenology. - 2.1 London phenomenology2.2 Ginzburg - Landau functional; 2.3 Mean-field treatment; 2.3.1 Meissner phase; 2.3.2 Length scales: London penetration depth and correlation length; 2.3.3 Classification of superconductors; 2.3.4 Upper critical field; 2.4 Flux quantization; 2.5 London model and first flux penetration field; 2.6 Effective mass anisotropy; 2.6.1 3D anisotropic London model; Further reading; Chapter 3 Gaussian thermal fluctuations; 3.1 Gaussian fluctuations around the mean field solution; 3.2 Gaussian order parameter fluctuations; 3.3 Gaussian vector potential fluctuations. - 3.4 Relevance of vector potential fluctuations3.5 Helicity modulus; 3.6 Effective mass anisotropy; 3.7 Fluctuation induced diamagnetism; 3.7.1 Isotropic system; 3.7.2 Effective mass anisotropy; 3.7.3 Magnetic torque; Further reading; Chapter 4 Superfluidity and the n-vector model; 4.1 Ideal Bose gas; 4.2 Charged Bose gas subjected to a magnetic field; 4.3 Weakly interacting Bose gas; 4.4 Hydrodynamic approach; 4.5 The n-vector model; Further reading; Chapter 5 Universality and scaling theory of classical critical phenomena at finite temperature. - 5.1 Static critical phenomena in isotropic systems5.2 Superconductors with effective mass anisotropy; 5.3 Dimensional analysis; 5.3.1 Static critical properties; 5.3.2 Classical dynamic critical phenomena; 5.4 Implications of the universal critical amplitude relations; Further reading; Chapter 6 Experimental evidence for classical critical behavior; 6.1 Critical behavior close to optimum doping; 6.1.1 Specific heat in zero field; 6.1.2 Temperature dependence of the penetration depth; 6.1.3 Corrections to scaling; 6.1.4 Temperature dependence of the diamagnetic susceptibility. - 6.1.5 Scaling of the magnetization6.1.6 Crossing point phenomenon; 6.1.7 Magnetic torque and universal scaling function; 6.1.8 Magnetic field tuned phase transitions: Melting transition; 6.1.9 Magnetic field tuned phase transitions: Superconductor - normal conductor and insulator transitions; 6.1.10 Evidence for a Kosterlitz - Thouless - Berezinskii transition in thin films; 6.1.11 Temperature driven 2D to 3D crossover; 6.2 Doping dependence of the critical behavior; 6.3 Evidence for dynamic scaling; 6.4 Vortex glass to vortex fluid transition. - 6.5 The (H,T) phase diagram of extreme type II superconductors emerging from Monte Carlo simulations
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| Emner | Copper oxide superconductors.
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| ISBN | 1860942415
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