Electrodynamics of Quantum-Critical Conductors and Superconductors

• Main Author: Pracht, Uwe Santiago (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Mathematical physics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.
• Physical Description: XX, 176 p. 62 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319728025
• ISSN: 2190-5053
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72802-5

This thesis presents and discusses recent optical low-temperature experiments on disordered NbN, granular Al thin-films, and the heavy-fermion compound CeCoIn5, offering a unified picture of quantum-critical superconductivity. It provides a concise introduction to the respective theoretical models employed to interpret the experimental results, and guides readers through in-depth calculations supplemented with supportive figures in order to both retrace the interpretations and span the bridge between experiment and state-of-the art theory.