Superconductivity in nanowires : fabrication and quantum transport /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bezryadin, Alexey
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2013]
• Θέματα: Superconductivity.; Nanowires.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Superconductors & Superconductivity.; Electronic books.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Abbreviations; Notations; 1 Introduction; 2 Selected Theoretical Topics Relevant to Superconducting Nanowires; 2.1 Free or Usable Energy of Superconducting Condensates; 2.2 Helmholtz and Gibbs Free Energies; 2.3 Fluctuation Probabilities; 2.4 Work Performed by a Current Source on the Condensate in a Thin Wire; 2.5 Helmholtz Energy of Superconducting Wires; 2.6 Gibbs Energy of Superconducting Wires; 2.7 Relationship between Gibbs and Helmholtz Energy Densities; 2.8 Relationship between Thermal Fluctuations and Usable Energy
• 2.9 Calculus of Variations2.10 Ginzburg-Landau Equations; 2.11 Little-Parks Effect; 2.12 Kinetic Inductance and the CPR of a Thin Wire; 2.13 Drude Formula and the Density of States; 3 Stewart-McCumber Model; 3.1 Kinetic Inductance and the Amplitude of Small Oscillations; 3.2 Mechanical Analogy for the Stewart-McCumber Model; 3.3 Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in the Stewart-McCumber Model; 3.4 Schmid-Bulgadaev Quantum Phase Transition in Shunted Junctions; 3.5 Stewart-McCumber Model with Normalized Variables; 4 Fabrication of Nanowires Using Molecular Templates
• 4.1 Choice of Templating Molecules4.2 DNA Molecules as Templates; 4.3 Significance of the So-Called "White Spots"; 5 Experimental Methods; 5.1 Sample Installation; 5.2 Electronic Transport Measurements; 6 Resistance of Nanowires Made of Superconducting Materials; 6.1 Basic Properties; 6.2 Little's Phase Slips; 6.3 Little's Fit; 6.4 LAMH Model of Phase Slippage at Low Bias Currents; 6.5 Comparing LAMH and Little's Fit; 7 Golubev and Zaikin Theory of Thermally Activated Phase Slips; 8 Stochastic Premature Switching and Kurkijärvi Theory; 8.1 Stochastic Switching Revealed by V-I Characteristics
• 8.2 "Geiger Counter" for Little's Phase Slips8.3 Measuring Switching Current Distributions; 8.4 Kurkijärvi-Fulton-Dunkleberger (KFD) Transformation; 8.5 Examples of Applying KFD Transformations; 8.6 Inverse KFD Transformation; 8.7 Universal 3/2 Power Law for Phase Slip Barrier; 8.8 Rate of thermally Activated Phase Slips at High Currents; 8.9 Kurkijärvi Dispersion Power Laws of 2/3 and 1/3; 9 Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Thin Wires; 9.1 Giordano Model of Quantum Phase Slips (QPS) in Thin Wires; 9.2 Experimental Tests of the Giordano Model; 9.3 Golubev and Zaikin QPS Theory
• 9.4 Khlebnikov Theory9.5 Spheres of Influence of QPS and TAPS Regimes; 9.6 Kurkijärvi-Garg Model; 9.7 Theorem: Inverse Relationship between Dispersion and the Slope of the Switching Rate Curve; 10 Superconductor-Insulator Transition (SIT) in Thin and Short Wires; 10.1 Simple Model of SIT in Thin Wires; 11 Bardeen Formula for the Temperature Dependence of the Critical Current; Appendix A: Superconductivity in MoGe Alloys; Appendix B: Variance and the Variance Estimator; Appendix C: Problems and Solutions; References; Index