Conductor Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions

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. Introduction to Metal-Insulator Transitions ; 2. Anderson Localisation ; 3. Visualizing Critical Correlations near the Metal-Insulator Transition in Ga1??xMnxAs ; 4. Local approaches to strongly correlated disordered systems ; 5. Penultimate fate of a dirty-Fermi-liquid ; 6. Glassy dynamics of electrons near the metal-insulator transition ; 7. Phase Competition and Inhomogeneous States as a New Paradigm for Complex Materials ; 8. Numerical Studies of Metal-Insulator Transitions in Disordered Hubbard Models ; PART II: SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS ; 9. Superconductor-Insulator Transitions: Present Status and Open Questions ; 10. Scaling Analysis of Direct Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Disordered Ultrathin Films of Metals ; 11. Spin Effects Near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition ; 12. Magnetic field-induced novel insulating phase in 2D superconductors ; 13. SIT's in ultrathin a-Pb films: comparisons of disorder, magnetic field and magnetic impurity tuned ; 14. Evidence of Cooper Pairs on the Insulating Side of the SIT ; 15. Spectroscopic Imaging STM Studies of Electronic Structure in both the Superconducting and Pseudogap Phases of Underdoped Cuprates ; 16. Suppression of Tunneling of Superconducting Vortices Caused by a Remote Gate: Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe and localization ; 17. Theoretical Studies of Superconductor-Insulator Transitions