Short descriptionOrder hereFabrication and electronic transport properties of superconducting nanowires are summarized. The book is adressed at students and young researchers. This monograph deals with fundamental questions as well as the latest findings regarding fabrication, measurements, and theories.The book has twenty problems with solutions.From the contents1 Introduction2 Selected Theoretical Topics Relevant to Superconducting Nanowires3 StewartMcCumber Model4 Fabrication of Nanowires Using Molecular Templates5 Experimental Methods6 Resistance of Nanowires Made of Superconducting Materials7 Golubev and Zaikin Theory of Thermally Activated Phase Slips8 Stochastic Premature Switching and Kurkij¨arvi Theory9 Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Thin Wires10 SuperconductorInsulator Transition (SIT) in Thin and ShortWires11 Bardeen Formula for the Temperature Dependence of the Critical CurrentAppendicesA Superconductivity in MoGe AlloysB Variance and the Variance EstimatorC Problems with Solutions
