This outstanding and invaluable volume has been very systematically structured and organised covering all aspects of superconductivity. The first five chapters deal with basic principles and microscopic weak coupling BCS theory of superconductivity. Chapters 6 to 8 are devoted to high-Tc cuprates covering experimental results and theories. Chapter 9 is diverted to new emerging superconductors and the last chapter describes the potential applications of superconductors.
Contents
1. Introduction - Classes of Superconductors, Rare-Earth Transition Metal Borocarbides, Sr2Ru04, Alkali Metal Doped C60 Fullerene Superconductors, MgB2, Quantum Spin-Ladder Superconductors, Li V204, Heavy Fermion Superconductors (Superconductivity in f-electron systems), Itinerant-Electron-Ferromagnetic Superconductors, Binary Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds, Chevrel Phases, Ternary Rare-Earth Rhodium Borides, Organic Superconductors, Potential Applications 2. Characteristic Properties of Superconducting State - Electrical Resistivity: Normal Metal, The Superconducting State-Zero Resistivity ie Infinite Conductivity (no Individual Scattering ), A.C. Resistivity, The Wave Function of the Superconducting State, Perfect Diamagnetism, Ring Supercurrent, Critical Magnetic Field, The Mermodynamics of Superconductors, Isotope Effect, Acoustic Attenuation, Mechanical Effects, High Frequency Electromagnetic Properties, Absence of Effects, Characteristic Phenomenological Parameters, Flux Quantization, Magnetic Levitation, Tunnelling Effects 3. Phenomenological Theory - Two-Fluid Model, London Theory, Ginzburg-Landau (GL) Theory, Type-I and Type-II Superconductors, Lower Critical Field (Bc1), Surface and Interface Effects in Superconductors 4. Critical Currents of Type-II Superconductors - Mixed Sate, Interaction between Vortices, Abrikoscov Lattice, Anisotropic Type-II Superconductors, Irreversible Properties: Metastable States, Flux Flow, Hysteresis Cycle, Pinning of Flux Vortices, Flux Creep 5. Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity - Normal Metal, Normal State Instability, Origin of Attraction between Electrons Concept of Dielectric Constant , Dielectric Constant of a Gas of Electrons, Motion of Ions in Metal, Origin of the Attractive Interaction, Microscopic (BCS) Theory, Properties, GL Theory and BCS Theory, Properties, GL Theory and BCS Theory, Strong Coupling Effects: Eliashberg Approach, Optical Properties of Superconductors, Microwave Properties 6. High Temperature Superconducting Cuprates: General Survey - Cuprates, Layering Schemes for Cuprates, Charge Carriers in Cuprates, Crystal Structures, Critical Temperatures, Physical Properties of HTSC Cuprates, Pseudogap, Representative Phase Diagrams, Electronic States of the HTSC Cuprates 7. Hubbard Model, Anderson Lattice Model and Superconductivity - Narrow Band Systems, The Hybridized Systems, Novel Mechanisms of Electron Pairing, Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity, Conclusions
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