Superconductivity

Graduate text on superconductivity, an area of intense research activity worldwide.

J. B. Ketterson (Author), S. N. Song (Author)

9780521565622, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 January 1999

512 pages, 80 b/w illus. 5 tables
24.5 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.898 kg

'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

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.

Part I. Phenomenological Theories of Suoerconductivity: 1. Introduction
2. The London-London equation
3. Pippard's equation
4. Thermodynamics of type I superconductor
5. The intermediate state
6. Surface energy between a normal and a superconducting metal
7. Quantized vorticity
8. Type II superconductivity
9. The Ginzburg–Landau theory
10. The upper critical field of a type II superconductor
11. The anisotropic superconductor
12. Superconductivity in thin slabs
13. Surface superconductivity
14. The type II superconductor for H just below Hc2
15. The Josephson effect
16. The Josephson lattice in 1D
17. Vortex structures in layered superconductors
18. Granular superconductors
the Josephson lattice in 2D and 3D
19. Wave propagation in Josephson junctions, superlattices and arrays
20. Flux pinning and flux motion
21. Time dependent Ginzburg–Landau theory
22. Fluctuation effects
23. Ginzburg–Landau theory of an unconventional superfluid
24. Landau Fermi liquid theory
Part II. The Microscopic Theory of a Uniform Superconductor: 25. The Cooper problem: pairing of two electrons above a filled Fermi sea
26. The Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory of the superconducting ground state
27. Elementary excitations
the Bogoliubov–Valatin transformation
28. Calculation of the thermodynamic properties using the Bogoliubov–Valatin method
29. Quasiparticle tunneling
30. Pair tunneling: the microscopic theory of the Josephson effects
31. Simplified discussion of pairing mechanisms
32. The effect of Coulomb repulsion on Tc
33. The two band superconductor
34. Time dependent perturbations
35. Non equilibrium superconductivity
Part III. Non Uniform Superconductors: 36. Bogoliubov's self-consistent potential equations
37. Self consistency conditions and the free energy
38. Linearized self consistency and the correlation function
39. Behaviour of the correlation function in the clean and dirty limits
40. Self consistency condition
41. Effects involving electron spin
42. Boundary conditions
43. The proximity effect at zero field
44. Proximity effect in a magnetic field
45. Derivation of the Ginzburg–Landau theory
46. Gauge invariance
Diamagnetism in the low field limit
47. The quasi-classical case
48. The isolated vortex line
49. Time dependent Bogoliubov equations
50. The response of a superconductor to an electromagnetic field
51. The Bogoliubov equations for an unconventional superfluid
53. Superfluid 3He
54. Collective modes in normal and superfluid Fermi systems
55. Green's functions
Appendix A. The occupation number representation
Appendix B. Some calculations involving the BCS wavefunction
Appendix C. The gap as a perturbation through third order
References
Additional reading
List of mathematical and physical symbols
Index.

Subject Areas: Condensed matter physics [liquid state & solid state physics PHFC]