Novel Superfluids: Volume 1

Author:   Karl-Heinz Bennemann (, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin) ,  John B. Ketterson (, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   156
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9780199585915


Pages:   650
Publication Date:   28 February 2013
Format:   Hardback
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This book reports on the latest developments in the field of Superfluidity. The phenomenon has had a tremendous impact on the fundamental sciences as well as a host of technologies. It began with the discovery of superconductivity in mercury in 1911, which was ultimately described theoretically by the theory of Bardeen Cooper and Schriever (BCS) in 1957. The analogous phenomena, superfluidity, was discovered in helium in 1938 and tentatively explained shortly thereafter as arising from a Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) by London. But the importance of superfluidity, and the range of systems in which it occurs, has grown enormously. In addition to metals and the helium liquids the phenomena has now been observed for photons in cavities, excitons in semiconductors, magnons in certain materials, and cold gasses trapped in high vacuum. It very likely exist for neutrons in a neutron star and, possibly, in a conjectured quark state at their center. Even the Universe itself can be regarded as being in a kind of superfluid state. All these topics are discussed by experts in the respective subfields.

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Author:   Karl-Heinz Bennemann (, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin) ,  John B. Ketterson (, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   156
Dimensions:   Width: 19.60cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   1.560kg
ISBN:  

9780199585915


ISBN 10:   0199585911
Pages:   650
Publication Date:   28 February 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: K. H. Bennemann and J. B. Ketterson: An introduction to superfluidity and superconductivity 2: J. B. Ketterson and K. H. Bennemann: A survey of some novel superfluids 3: Makoto Tsubota, Kenichi Kasamatsuand, and Michikazu Kobayashi: Quantized vortices in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates 4: Y.M. Bunkov and G.E. Volovik: Spin superfluidity and magnon Bose-Einstein condensation 5: Yoonseok Lee and Richard P. Haley: Superfluid helium three in aerogel: experiment 6: Jan Klaers and Martin Weitz: Bose-Einstein condensation of photons 7: Frederic Chevy and Jean Dalibard: Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases 8: M. Kuwata-Gonokami: Experiments on excitons in bulk semiconductors 9: Y. Yamamoto: Superfluidity in exciton-polariton condensates 10: Mark G. Alford, Andreas Schmitt, Krishna Rajagopal, and Thomas Schafe: Color superconductivity in dense quark matter 11: G. E. Volovik: The superfluid universe

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This very timely collection written by leading experts in a broad range of expanding research areas all related by exhibiting macroscopic quantum coherence will be a valuable source book in a rapidly emerging and most exciting field of condensed-matter physics. J.P. Toennies, Il Nuovo Saggiatore


Author Information

K. H. Bennemann is Professor of Physics at the FU Berlin (1971-). He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he worked with J. Bardeen. He has also been a research Sloan-fellow. He is internationally known in particular for research on magnetism, non-linear optics, superconductivity and ultrafast dynamics in condensed matter. J. B. Ketterson is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University (1974- ). He was earlier at Argonne National Laboratory (1962 - 1974). He received his PhD from the University of Chicago (1962) under Prof. A. W. Lawson. He specializes in condensed matter physics (electronic properties of metals, liquid helium, superconductivity, cold trapped gasses, magnetism, liquid crystals and Langmuir films, and non linear optics). Both authors are well known for their classic books on Superfluid He and Superconductivity.

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