Overview

Major superconducting properties including zero resistance, Meissner effect, sharp phase change, flux quantization, excitation energy gap, Josephson effects are covered and microscopically explained, using quantum statistical mechanical calculations. First treated are the 2D superconductivity and then the quantum Hall effects. Included are exercise-type problems for each section. Readers can grasp the concepts covered in the book by following the worked-through problems. Bibliographies are included in each chapter and a glossary and list of symbols are given in the beginning of the book. The book is based on the materials taught by S. Fujita for several courses in Quantum Theory of Solids, Advanced Topics in Modern Physics, and Quantum Statistical Mechanics.

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Author:   Shigeji Fujita ,  Kei Ito ,  Salvador Godoy
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.486kg
ISBN:  

9781441927774

ISBN 10:   1441927778
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   29 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Superconductors–Introduction.- Electron–Phonon Interaction.- The BCS Ground State.- The Energy Gap Equations.- Quantum Statistics of Composites.- Quantum Statistical Theory.- Quantum Tunneling.- Compound Superconductors.- Supercurrents and Flux Quantization.- Ginzburg-Landau Theory.- Josephson Effects.- High Temperature Superconductors.- Doping Dependence of T c .- The Susceptibility in Cuprates.- d-Wave Cooper Pair.- Transport Properties Above T c .- Other Theories.- Summary and Remarks.

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From the reviews: This book, basing on a quantum statistical mechanical point of view, develops the pairon theory of superconductivity. ! In total, this comprehensive monograph ! presents a very well textbook on superconductivity theories. ! The methodical advantage of the book is that ! problems of the text are used as tasks for a self-verification and self-training. ! will be very useful for students and also for their teachers specializing into Physics of Condensed Media and related directions. (I. A. Parinov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1174, 2009)

From the reviews: This book, basing on a quantum statistical mechanical point of view, develops the pairon theory of superconductivity. ... In total, this comprehensive monograph ... presents a very well textbook on superconductivity theories. ... The methodical advantage of the book is that ... problems of the text are used as tasks for a self-verification and self-training. ... will be very useful for students and also for their teachers specializing into Physics of Condensed Media and related directions. (I. A. Parinov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1174, 2009) Textbook reviews the physics of superconductivity and other superfluid phenomena which occur when matter organizes itself in a totally different way than it is expected to behave. ... This nice manual is intended for Ph.D. students working in condensed matter physics who want to have a global yet detailed and condensed view of these collective effects. The chapters ... contain the essential material to understand the technical aspects of the second quantization method and eigenvalue problems for determining the ground states of these collective effects. (Jean-Yves Fortin, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 k)

Author Information

Shigeji Fujita is Professor of Physics at State University of New York at Buffalo and has published 3 books with the Springer family since 1996. His areas of expertise include statistical physics, solid and liquid state physics, superconductivity and Quantum Hall Effect theory. Kei Ito is in the research division of the National Center for University Entrance Examinations in Tokyo, Japan.

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