Svistunov / Babaev / Prokof'ev Superfluid States of Matter

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4398-0276-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 583 Seiten

Discussing changes over the last two decades, including the expanded number of available experimental systems and potential applications, this book represents the most complete and up-to-date treatment of superfluidity. It covers new superfluid materials such as high-temperature superconductors, ultra-cold atomic bosons and fermions, and helium supersolids. The text begins by explaining the general physical principles behind the superfluid phenomenon as a framework for the discussion of realistic systems. The authors present superfluidity as a phenomenon of emergent topological order and show that all superproperties of the system are explained by the appearance of a new constant of motion.

Zielgruppe

Advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in superfluidity, superconductivity, and related topics such as quantum physics, ultracold gases, statistical modeling, quantum optics and magnetism; researchers and instructors in experimental and theoretical physics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Svistunov, Boris V.

Babaev, Egor S.

Prokof'ev, Nikolay V.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I. General Aspects of Superfluidity
Superfluidity of the Classical Complex-Valued Field
Vortices as Topological Defects
Superfluid Phase Transition
Quantum Field Perspective

PART II. Superfluid Macro-dynamics
Dynamics of Phonons and Vortexes
Beresinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition
Supercurrent States in One-Dimensional Rings

PART III. Path Integral Representation for Bosonic Systems
Feynrnan's Path Integrals
Insulators and Supersolids
Path Integral Monte Carlo and the Worm Algorithm

PART IV. Neutral and Charged Fermionic Superfluids
From Cooper Pairs to Compact Molecules
Phenomenology of the Superconducting State
Two-Component Superconductors and the Deconfining Transition

PART V. Weakly Interacting Bosonic Systems
Thermodynamic Properties
Time-Dependent Gross-Pitaevskii Equation and the BEC Formation
Historical Overview

Appendix: Green's Functions and Feynman's Diagrams

Über Autor(innen)

Nikolai Prokof'ev, Egor Babaev, and Boris Svistunov are Physics Professors at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.