Superconductivity - Softcover

Ketterson, J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521565626 ISBN 13: 9780521565622

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This is a three-part text on the subject of superconductivity, an area of intense research activity worldwide. The first part covers the London, Pippard and Ginzburg-Landau theories, which are used to discuss a wide range of phenomena involving surface energies, vorticity, the intermediate and mixed states, boundaries and boundary conditions, the upper critical field in bulk, thin film and anisotropic superconductors, and surface superconductivity. The second section discusses the microscopic theory of Bardeen, Cooper and Schreiffer. The theory is used to discuss quasi particle tunneling and the Josephson effects from a microscopic point of view. The final part of the book treats non-uniform superconductors using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach with which it is possible to extract many important results without invoking Green's function methods. This text will be of great interest to graduate students and research workers in the fields of superconductivity, superfluidity, many body theory, and quantum liquids.

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Review:

'I can thoroughly recommend [this book]. It is well written and well structured. If you need a text to bring together the physics of most of the important resulted in superconductivity, this is the text to slay the dragon of dissipated sources.' Dr D. P. Hampshire, Contemporary Physics

Book Description:

This graduate textbook is in three parts: the first deals with phenomenological aspects of superconductivity; the second with the microscopic theory of uniform superconductors; and the third with the microscopic theory of non-uniform superconductors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521565626
• ISBN 13: 9780521565622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512