Conductor Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions

• Explores topics at the forefront of research on quantum phase transitions
• Combines experiment and theory
• Focuses on intriguing quantum phases and transitions in metals, superconductors, and insulators
• First pedagogical text on the new developments in the field of metal-insulator and superconductor-insulator transitions
• Deals with the important topic of localization and its competition with metallic or superconducting behavior

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in condensed matter, experimental, and theoretical physics. Researchers and experimentalists in nuclear, high energy and astrophysics.

Edited by Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Nandini Trivedi, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, and James M. Valles, Jr., Department of Physics, Brown University

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: V. Dobrosavljevic: Introduction to Metal-Insulator Transitions
2: Keith Slevin and Tomi Ohtsuki: Anderson Localisation
3: Ali Yazdani: Visualizing Critical Correlations near the Metal-Insulator Transition in Ga1??xMnxAs
4: E. Miranda and V. Dobrosavljevic: Local approaches to strongly correlated disordered systems
5: Alexander Punnoose and Alexander M. Finkel'stein: Penultimate fate of a dirty-Fermi-liquid
6: Dragana Popovic: Glassy dynamics of electrons near the metal-insulator transition
7: Elbio Dagotto, Shuai Dong, Rong Yu, Cengiz Sen, Gonzalo Alvarez, Adrianna Moreo: Phase Competition and Inhomogeneous States as a New Paradigm for Complex Materials
8: S. Chiesa, R.T. Scalettar, P. Chakraborty, P.J.H. Denteneer, T. Paiva and S. Story: Numerical Studies of Metal-Insulator Transitions in Disordered Hubbard Models
Part II: Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
9: Nandini Trivedi: Superconductor-Insulator Transitions: Present Status and Open Questions
10: A. M. Goldman: Scaling Analysis of Direct Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Disordered Ultrathin Films of Metals
11: Phil Adams: Spin Effects Near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
12: G. Sambandamurthy and N. Peter Armitage: Magnetic field-induced novel insulating phase in 2D superconductors
13: Peng Xiong: SIT's in ultrathin a-Pb films: comparisons of disorder, magnetic field and magnetic impurity tuned
14: M.D. Stewart, Jr. and James M. Valles, Jr.: Evidence of Cooper Pairs on the Insulating Side of the SIT
15: K Fujita, A R Schmidt, E-A Kim, M J Lawler, H Eisaki, S Uchida, D-H Lee and J C Davis: Spectroscopic Imaging STM Studies of Electronic Structure in both the Superconducting and Pseudogap Phases of Underdoped Cuprates
16: Karen Michaeli and Alexander M. Finkel'stein: Suppression of Tunneling of Superconducting Vortices Caused by a Remote Gate: Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe and localization
17: Yen Lee Loh and Nandini Trivedi: Theoretical Studies of Superconductor-Insulator Transitions