Conductor Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions

Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Nandini Trivedi, Jr. Valles James M. (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

584 Seiten

2012
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-959259-3 (ISBN)

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When many particles come together how do they organize themselves? And what destroys this organization? Combining experiments and theory, this book describes intriguing quantum phases - metals, superconductors and insulators - and transitions between them. It captures the excitement and the controversies on topics at the forefront of research.

Quantum phase transitions describe the violent rearrangement of electrons or atoms as they evolve from well defined excitations in one phase to a completely different set of excitations in another. The chapters in this book give insights into how a coherent metallic or superconducting state can be driven into an incoherent insulating state by increasing disorder, magnetic field, carrier concentration and inter-electron interactions. The problem necessarily involves
many interacting particles and therein lies the challenge to develop a multi-faceted theory. Experiments probing microscopic structure, transport, charge and spin dynamics provide important clues. What sets this book apart is a strong dialog between experiment and theory that has the potential to
solve some major issues in many-body physics. The ideas and methods developed here are bound to have repercussions in all spheres of physics.

Vladimir Dobrosavljevic is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Director of Condensed Matter Theory in the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University. Nandini Trivedi is a Professor in the Department of Physics, Ohio State University. James M Valles, Jr. is a Professor in the Department of Physics, Brown University.

PART I: METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS ; 1. Introduction to Metal-Insulator Transitions ; 2. Anderson Localisation ; 3. Visualizing Critical Correlations near the Metal-Insulator Transition in Ga1??xMnxAs ; 4. Local approaches to strongly correlated disordered systems ; 5. Penultimate fate of a dirty-Fermi-liquid ; 6. Glassy dynamics of electrons near the metal-insulator transition ; 7. Phase Competition and Inhomogeneous States as a New Paradigm for Complex Materials ; 8. Numerical Studies of Metal-Insulator Transitions in Disordered Hubbard Models ; PART II: SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS ; 9. Superconductor-Insulator Transitions: Present Status and Open Questions ; 10. Scaling Analysis of Direct Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Disordered Ultrathin Films of Metals ; 11. Spin Effects Near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition ; 12. Magnetic field-induced novel insulating phase in 2D superconductors ; 13. SIT's in ultrathin a-Pb films: comparisons of disorder, magnetic field and magnetic impurity tuned ; 14. Evidence of Cooper Pairs on the Insulating Side of the SIT ; 15. Spectroscopic Imaging STM Studies of Electronic Structure in both the Superconducting and Pseudogap Phases of Underdoped Cuprates ; 16. Suppression of Tunneling of Superconducting Vortices Caused by a Remote Gate: Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe and localization ; 17. Theoretical Studies of Superconductor-Insulator Transitions

Zusatzinfo	209 colour line drawings & 31 colour halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 248 mm
Gewicht	1258 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
ISBN-10	0-19-959259-4 / 0199592594
ISBN-13	978-0-19-959259-3 / 9780199592593
Zustand	Neuware