Superconductivity An introduction /

• Main Authors: Mangin, Philippe (Author), Kahn, Rémi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Physics.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Nanotechnology.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

This book proposes a thorough introduction for a varied audience. The reader will master London theory and the Pippard equations, and go on to understand type I and type II superconductors (their thermodynamics, magnetic properties, vortex dynamics, current transport…), Cooper pairs and the results...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 2. LONDON theory
• 3. The non-local PIPPARD equations
• 4. Thermodynamics of type I superconductors
• 5. The intermediate state of type I superconductors
• 6. Type II superconductors
• 7. Fields and currents in type II superconductors - Models of the critical state
• 8. COOPER pairs -Principal results of BCS theory
• 9. Coherence and the flux quantum
• 10. The JOSEPHSON effect
• 11. Superconducting Quantum Interference Device "SQUID"
• 12. JOSEPHSON junctions in a magnetic field.