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Two-Dimensional Coulomb Gas and Connections to Superconducting Films

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Percolation, Localization, and Superconductivity

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((SPEPO,volume 109))

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The present set of lectures deals with the thermodynamic properties of a two-dimensional Coulomb gas and its connection to “dirty” superconducting films. The general background is the following: “Dirty” superconducting films are a class of effectively two-dimensional superconductors for which vortex-fluctuations may be expected to play an important role in the physical description close to the transition between the superconducting and normal state. This expectation stems from the theoretical development by Berezinskii1, Kosterlitz and Thouless2-3 who found that topological excitations like vortices are crucial for destroying the quasilong-range order in two-dimensions. Subsequently these ideas were developed in case of two-dimensional superfluids and successfully explained experiments on helium films4-6. At this point several authors realized that the situation should be very analogous for “dirty” superconducting films7-10. This was the starting point of a considerable and ongoing research activity.

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Minnhagen, P. (1984). Two-Dimensional Coulomb Gas and Connections to Superconducting Films. In: Goldman, A.M., Wolf, S.A. (eds) Percolation, Localization, and Superconductivity. NATO Science Series, vol 109. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9394-2_12

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