Physical Review 114, 488 - Physics

PUBLICATIONS
V. Ambegaokar
1. “Thermal Resistance Due to Isotopes at High Temperatures,” Physical Review 114, 488
(1959).
2. “Effect of Hydrogen on Stability of Microcracks in Iron and Steel,” Acta Metallurgica 8,
504 (1960), with F. Garofolo and Y. T. Chou.
3. “Connection Between True Effective Mass and Optical Absorption in Crystals,” Physical
Review Letters 2, 385 (1959), with W. Kohn.
4. “Electromagnetic Properties of Insulators I,” Physical Review 117, 423 (1960), with W.
Kohn.
5. “Electromagnetic Properties of Insulators II,” Physical Review 121, 91 (1961).
6. “Friedel Sum Rule for a System of Interacting Electrons,” Physical Review 121, 1090 (1961),
with J. S. Langer.
7. “Electromagnetic Properties of Superconductors,” Lecture Notes from the First Bergen
International School of Physics, 1961 (Benjamin, New York, 1962), with L. P. Kadanoff.
8. “Electromagnetic Properties of Superconductors,” Nuovo Cimento, 22, 914 (1961), with
L. P. Kadanoff.
9. “Green’s Functions in Many-Body Problems,” Lecture Notes from the 1962 Brandeis Summer
Institute, Volume 2 (Benjamin, New York, 1963).
10. “Tunneling Between Superconductors,” Physical Review Letters 10, 486 (1963); erratum
11, 104 (1963), with A. Baratoff.
11. “Theory of the Electronic Thermal Conductivity of Superconductors with Strong Electron-
Phonon Coupling,” Physical Review 134, A805 (1964), with Ludwig Tewordt.
12. “Inelastic Scattering of Neutrons by Anharmonic Crystals,” Lattice Dynamics, Proceedings
of the International Conference held at Copenhagen, Denmark, August 5-9, 1963
(Pergamon Press, 1964), with John M. Conway and Gordon Baym.
13. “Calculation of the Scattering Function S(k,ω) for the Inelastic Scattering of Neutrons by
Anharmonic Crystals,” Physical Review 135, A1071 (1964), with A. A. Maradudin.
14. “Theory of the Thermal Conductivity of Superconducting Alloys with Paramagnetic Im-
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purities,” Physical Review 137, A1151 (1965), with Allan Griffin.
15. “Calculation of the Thermal Conductivity of Pure Superconducting Lead,” Physical Review
139, A1818 (1965), with James Woo.
16. “Ultrasonic Attenuation in Pure Strong-Coupling Superconductors,” Physical Review Letters
16, 1047 (1966).
17. “On the Suppression of Strangeness Changing Weak Currents,” Physics Letters 20, 5325
(1966), with P. Tarjanne.
18. “Accelerated Currents in Superconductors,” Physical Review 142, 146 (1966), with G.
Rickayzen.
19. “Bulk (H c2 ) and Surface (H c3 ) Nucleation Fields of Strong-Coupling Super-conducting
Alloys,” Physical Review 158, 332 (1967), with G. Eilenberger.
20. “Intrinsic Resistive Transition in Narrow Superconducting Channels,” Physical Review 164,
498 (1967), with J. S. Langer.
21. “Critical Currents and the Onset of Resistance in Superconductors,” Lecture notes for a
course given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute of Superconductivity, McGill University,
Montreal, June 1968.
22. “Elements of the Theory of Strong-Coupling Superconductors,” in Many Body Physics,
C. deWitt and R. Balian, eds. (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Inc., New York,
1968), 297-350.
23. “Voltage Due to Thermal Noise in the dc Josephson Effect,” Physical Review Letters 22,
1364 (1969), with B. I. Halperin.
24. “Persistent Currents in Superconductors,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference
on Low Temperature Physics 2, 781 (University of St. Andrews Printing Department,
1968).
25. “On the Diamagnetic Susceptibility of a Superconductor Above the Transition Temperature,”
Solid State Communications 7, 1287 (1969), with Bruce R. Patton and J. W.
Wilkins.
26. “Second Quantization,” Appendix A, in Superconductivity, Volume II, R. D. Parks, editor
(Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1969).
27. “The Green’s Function Method,” in Superconductivity, Volume I, R. D. Parks, editor
(Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1969).
28. “Numerical Calculations of Thermal Noise-Voltage in a Josephson Junction of Finite Capacitance,”
Physics Letters 31A, 314-315 (1970), with J. Kurkijärvi.
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29. “Hopping Conductivity in Disordered Systems,” Physical Review B 4, 2612 (1971), with
B. I. Halperin and J. S. Langer.
30. “Fluctuation-Enhanced Diamagnetism in Superconductors Above the Transition Temperature,”
Physical Review B 5, 868 (1972), with J. Kurkijärvi and G. Eilenberger.
31. “Some Measurable Consequences of Fluctuation of the Order Parameter in Superconductors,”
Physica 55, 32 (1971).
32. “Thermal Anomalies of He 3 : Pairing in a Magnetic Field,” Physical Review Letters 30, 81
(1973), with N. D. Mermin.
33. “Conduction in Random Systems,” Physical Review B 8, 3682 (1973), with S. Cochran
and J. Kurkijärvi.
34. “Landau-Ginsburg Equations for an Anisotropic Superfluid,” Physical Review A 9, 2676
(1974), with P. G. deGennes and D. Rainer.
35. “The Order Parameter in Liquid 3 He,” in Proceedings of the 24th Nobel Symposium on
Collective Properties of Physical Systems, Aspenaasgarden, Sweden, 1973, B. Lundqvist
and S. Lundqvist, eds. (Academic Press, N.Y., 1974), 97, with N. D. Mermin.
36. “Dissipative Processes in the Nuclear Magnetic Resonances of Superfluid Liquid 3 He,”
Quantum Statistics and the Many-Body Problem, 1975.
37. “Dissipative Effects in the Longitudinal Magnetic Oscillations of Superfluid Liquid 3 He-A,”
Physical Review B 13, 1967 (1976), with Miguel Levy.
38. “Soft Modes in Current Carrying Superconducting Filaments,” Physical Review Letters
39, 235-238 (1977).
39. “Dissipation in Two-dimensional Superfluids,” Physical Review Letters 40, 783 (1978), with
B. I. Halperin, D. R. Nelson and E. D. Siggia.
40. “Dynamics of Vortex Pairs in Superfluid Films,” Physical Review B 19, 1667 (1979), with
S. Teitel.
41. “Collective Modes and Nonequilibrium Effects in Current-Carrying Superconductors,”
Physical Review B 19, 3515 (1979), with Gerd Schon.
42. “Eigenmodes of the Coupled Two-Dimensional Wigner-Crystal-Liquid -Surface System
and Instability of a Charged Liquid Surface,” Physical Review B 20, 2190 (1979), with
Andre-Marie Tremblay.
43. “Dynamics of Superfluid Films,” Physical Review B 21, 1806 (1980), with B. I. Halperin,
D. R. Nelson and E. D. Siggia.
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44. “Thermal Fluctuations and the Phase Locking of Two Nearby Josephson Junctions,” with
M. Arai, Appl. Phys. Lett. 39, Nov. 1981, p. 763.
45. “Spectrum of Thermal Voltage Fluctuations in Current-Driven, Small Capacitance Josephson
Junctions,” Journal of Low Temperature Physics 47, 499 (1982), with Makato Arai.
46. “Quantum Dynamics of Tunneling Between Superconductors,” Physical Review Letters 48,
1745-1748, (1982), with U. Eckern and G. Schön.
47. “Phonon Spectrum of a Model of Electronically Excited Silicon,” The Physical Review B
26, 1980 (1982), with R. Biswas.
48. “Phonon Instabilities in Electronically Excited Semiconductors,” Comments section, Physical
Review Letters 50, 285 (1983), with R. Biswas.
49. “Quantum Dynamics of Superconductors and Tunneling Between Superconductors,” Proceedings
of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Percolation, Localization and Superconductivity
(Plenum, 1984).
50. “The Quantum Dynamics of a Superconducting Tunnel Junction,” Phyical Review B 30,
6419 (1985), with U. Eckern and G. Schön.
51. “Quantum Brownian Motion,” Frontiers of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, G. T. Moore
and M. O. Scully, eds. (Plenum, 1985), p. 231.
52. “Quantum Theory of a Free Particle Interacting with a Linearly Dissipative Environment,”
Physical Review A 32, 423, (1985), with V. Hakim.
53. “Effect of Friction on Electron Transfer in Biomolecules,” J. Chem. Phys. 83, 4491 (1985),
with A. Garg and J. N. Onuchic.
54. “Transport equation for weakly localized electrons,” Physical Review B 34, 2147 (1986),
with S. Hershfield.
55. “Kinetic Theory of a Quantum Particle Interacting with a Dissipative Environment,” Phys.
Rev. B 35, 6832 (1987), with Dana A. Browne, K. S. Chow.
56. “Antiferromagnétisme et champs cristallins dans les oxydes de cuivre supraconducteurs,”
C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris, (1987), with Pierre-Gilles de Gennes et André-Marie Séguin-
Tremblay.
57. “Quantum Dynamics of Tunneling between Superconductors: Microscopic Theory Rederived
via an Oscillator Model,” Zeitschrift für Physik B 69, (1987), with U. Eckern.
58. “Quantum Kinetics of a Superconducting Tunnel Junction: Theory and Comparison with
Experiment,”Physical Review B 37, 1624 (1988), with Kenneth S. Chow and Dana A.
Browne.
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59. “Microscopic Theory of the Proximity-Induced Josephson Effect,” Physical Review Letters
60, 365 (1988), with E.V. Thuneberg.
60. “Resistance Fluctuations in a Four-probe Geometry with Infinite Leads,” Physical Review
B 38, 7909 (1988), with Selman Hershfield.
61. “Dependence of the Transition Temperature on Deviations from Stoichiometry in the
Cuprate Superconductors,” Physical Review B 38, 9217 (1988), with Robert J. Gooding
and Robert A. Smith.
62. “Transition from Quantum to Classical Dissipation in the Problem of Escape from a
Metastable Well: Application to Josephson Junctions, ”Physical Review B 38, 11 168
(1988), with Kenneth S. Chow.
63. “Thuneberg and Ambegaokar Reply, ” Physical Review Letters 62, 2335 (1989), with E.
V. Thuneberg.
64. “Coherence and Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Rings, ” Physical Review Letters 65,
381 (1990), with U. Eckern.
65. “Nonlinear Diamagnetic Response in Mesoscopic Rings of Superconductors above T c , ”
Europhysics Letters 13, 733 (1990), with U. Eckern.
66. “Quantum Brownian Motion and its Classical Limit, ” Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft 95,
400 (1991).
67. “Diamagnetic Response of Mesoscopic Superconducting Rings above T c , ” Physical Review
B 44, 10 358 (1991), with U. Eckern.
68. “Comment on ‘Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Rings by Suppression of Charge Fluctuations,’
” Physical Review Letters 67, 3192 (1991), with U. Eckern
69. “Weak-localization Correction to the Number Density of Superconducting Electrons, ”
Physical Review B 45, 2463 (1992), with R. A. Smith
70. “ Phase Slip in Charge-Density-Wave Systems, ” Physical Reviw Letters 68, 2066 (1992),
with S. Ramakrishna, M. P. Maher, and U. Eckern.
71. “ Systematic Calculation of Moments of Flux-Dependent Currents in Single Mesoscopic
Rings, ” Europhys. Lett. 20, 3084 (1992), with R. A. Smith.
72. “ Comment on Distribution of Phase Slip in Charge-Density-Wave Conduction in NbSe 3 ,”
Physical Review Letters 24, 3915 (1993), with M. P. Maher, S. Ramakrishna, and R. E.
Thorne.
73 “ BCS Superconductivity with Fixed Number Parity, ” Physical Review B 50, 1152 (1994),
with B. Janko and A. Smith.
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74 “ Parity Fluctuations between Coulomb Blockaded Superconducting Islands, ” Physical
Review Letters 75, 1154 (1995), with B. Janko.
75 “ Effect of Level Statistics on Superconductivity in Ultrasmall Metallic Grains, ” Physical
Review Letters 77, 4962 (1996), with R. A. Smith.
76 “ Reasoning about Luck: Probability and its uses in Physics, ” Cambridge University
Press, (Cambridge 1996).
77 “ The 2-channel Kondo model: Review of experimental evidence for its realization in metal
nanoconstrictions, ” Annals of Physics 263, 1 (1998), with J. von Delft et al.
78 “ The 2-channel Kondo model II. CFT calculation of non-equilibrium conductance through
a nanoconstriction containing 2-channel Kondo impurities, ” Annals of Physics 273, 175
(1999), with J. von Delft and A.W.W. Ludwig.
79 Comments on “ Temperature dependence of the Josephson current, ” Physical Review
Letters 83, 2475 (1999).
80 “ Entropy and time, ” American Journal of Physics 67, 1068 (1999), with A.A. Clerk.
81 “ Andreev scattering and the Kondo effect, ” Physical Review B 61, 3555 (2000), with
A.A. Clerk and S. Hershfield.
82 “ Upper critical field in disordered two-dimensional superconductors, ” Physical Review B
61, 6352 (2000), with R.A. Smith and B.S. Handy.
83 “ Loss of pi-junction behavior in an interacting impurity Josephson junction, ” Physical
Review B 61, 9109 (2000), with A.A. Clerk.
84 “ Effect of magnetic impurities on suppression of the transition temperature in disordered
superconductors, ” Physical Review B 62, 5913 (2000), with R.A. Smith.
85 “ Andreev conductance of chaotic and integrable quantum dots, ” Physical Review B 62,
10226 (2000), with A.A. Clerk and P.W. Brouwer.
86 “ Universal gap fluctuations in the superconductor proximity effect, ” Physical Review
Letters 86, 874 (2001), with M.G. Vavilov and P.W. Brouwer.
87 “ Width and magnetic-field dependence of the transition temperature in ultranarrow superconducting
wires, ” Physical Review B 6309, 5413 (2001), with R.A. Smith and B.S.
Handy.
88 “ Question #78. A question about the Maxwell relations in thermodynamics, ” American
Journal of Physics 69, 405 (2001), with N.D. Mermin.
89 “ Charge pumping and photovoltaic effect in open quantum dots, ” Physical Review B
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6319, 5313 (2001), with M.G. Vavilov and I.L. Aleiner.
90 “ Interaction-induced restoration of phase coherence, ” Physical Review Letters 8718, 6801
(2001), with A.A. Clerk and P.W. Brouwer.
91 “ Answer to Question #78. A question about the Maxwell relations in thermodynamics,”
American Journal of Physics 69, 405 (2002), with N.D. Mermin.
92 Book Review “ An Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Physics, by Don S. Lemon,”
American Journal of Physics 71, 191 (2003),
93 Book Review “ True genius: The life and science of John Bardeen, by Lillian Hoddeson
and Vicki Daitch,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35, 134 (2004).
94 “ Comment on ‘Quantum measurement and decoherence’ ” Physical Review A 70, 026101
(2004).
95 “ Comment on ‘Magnetic response of disordered metallic rings: large contribution of far
levels’ ” Physical Review Letters 93, 209701 (2004).
96 “ Dissipation and decoherence in a quantum oscillator ” Journal of Statistical Physics 125,
1187 (2007).
97 “ Equilibration of a dissipative quantum oscillator ” Annalen der Physik 16, 319 (2007).
98 “ Decoherence in weak localization I: Pauli principle in influence functional” Phys. Rev.
B, 76, 195331 (2007), with F. Marquardt, J. von Delft, and R.A. Smith.
99 “ Decoherence in weak localization II: Bethe-Salpeter calculation of Cooperon” Phys. Rev.
B, 76, 195332 (2007), with F. Marquardt, J. von Delft, and R.A. Smith.
100 “ The Landau school and the American Institute of Physics translation program” Uspekhi
Fizicheskikh Nauk, 178, 1379 (2008) [Physics-Uspekhi, 51, 1287 (2008).]
101 “ Estimating errors reliably in Monte Carlo simulations of the Ehrenfest model” American
Journal of Physics. 78, 150 (2010), with M. Troyer.
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