The New Superconductors

Download or read book New Superconductors written by Guy Deutscher and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How new are the high T c superconductors, as compared to the conventional low T c ones? In what sense are these oxides different from regular metals in their normal state? How different is the mechanism for high T c superconductivity from the well-known electron-phonon interaction that explains so well superconductivity in metals and alloys? What are the implications of the new features of the high T c oxides for their practical applications? This interesting book aims to provide some answers to those questions, drawing particularly on similarities between the high T c oxides and granular superconductors, which also present a short coherence length and a small superfluid density. Sample Chapter(s). Introduction (86 KB). Chapter 1: Superfluidity (329 KB). Contents: Superfluidity; Coherence Length, Penetration Depth and Critical Temperature; The Phase Transition; Phase Diagrams; Gap, Symmetry and Pseudo-Gap; Basics on Vortices; Cuprate Superconductors Under Strong Fields; From Fundamentals to Applications; HTS Conductors and Their Applications. Readership: Condensed matter physicists, researchers and engineers in applied superconductivity.