Modern aspects of superconductivity : theory of superconductivity

Superconductivity remains one of the most interesting research areas in physics and stood as a major scientific mystery for a large part of this century. This book, written for graduate students and researchers in the field of superconductivity, discusses important aspects of the experiment and theo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Kruchinin, Sergei
Other Authors Nagao, Hidemi, Aono, Shigeyuki
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore ; Hackensack : World Scientific, ©2011.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789814261609
9814261602
9789814261616
9814261610
9781613440988
1613440987
9786613143648
6613143642
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Theory of superconductivity. 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. Spinors. 1.3. Propagator. 1.4. Noninteracting. 1.5. Interacting. 1.6. Illustrative example, critical temperature. 1.7. Linear response magnetic resonance in normal and superconducting species; spin-lattice relaxation time. 1.8. Interacting; superconductor. 1.9. Ginzburg-Landau theory from the BCS Hamiltonian
  • 2. Physics of high-Tc superconductors. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. History of the development of superconductivity. 2.3. Structural properties of high-temperature superconductors. 2.4. Mechanisms of pairing of HTSCs. 2.5. Symmetry of pairing in cuprate superconductors. 2.6. Experimental studies of the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter. 2.7. Thermodynamics of the d pairing in cuprate superconductors. 2.8. Summary
  • 3. Multiband superconductivity. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Multiband Hamiltonian. 3.3. Two-gap superconductivity in MgB[symbol]. 3.4. Theoretical studies of multiband effects in superconductivity by using the renormalization group approach
  • 4. Mesoscopic superconductivity. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Nanosize two-gap superconductivity. 4.3. Exact solution of two-band superconductivity in ultrasmall grains. 4.4. Kondo effect coupled to superconductivity. 4.5. Interaction of nanoscale ferromagnetic granules in London superconductors. 4.6. Spin-orientation phase transitions in a two-dimensional lattice of ferromagnetic granules in a London-type superconductor. 4.7. Quantum computer on superconducting qubits
  • Summary and conclusions.