Superconductivity is a unique and powerful phenomenon of nature. Johns, assistant director, ota energy, materials, and international security division peter d. Bcs theory and superconductivity department of physics. Several applications of superconductivity in the electric power sector have undergone extensive evaluation and even prototype development. The goal was not to give a detailed picture of these two macroscopic quantum phenomena with an extensive coverage of the experimental. Superconductivity superconductivity was discovered in 1911 by h. Appropriate for intermediate or advanced courses in superconductivity, this new edition has been revised to incorporate the many new developments in superconductivity. The discussion of cooper pairs, the foundation for bcs theory, though not difficult to read, is easier to understand after going through gordon bayms discussion of this topic in lectures on quantum mechanics lecture notes and supplements in physics.
Hightemperature superconductivity in perspective project staff lionel s. These notes have appeared as a result of a oneterm course in superfluidity and superconductivity given by the author to fourthyear undergraduate students and firstyear graduate students of the department of physics, moscow state university of education. On cooling hg to the temperature of liquid helium, he found that the resistance vanished abruptly at. Superconductivity has been reversibly inducedsuppressed in undoped cafe2as2 ca122 single crystals through proper thermal treatments, with tc at. Free superconductivity books download ebooks online. Ferro magnetic and anti ferromagnetic materials are not. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Superconductivity was discovered by kamerlinghonnes in 1911, when he was studying the transport properties of hg mercury at low temperatures. If the superconductor were simply a perfect conductor with in. Free superconductivity books download ebooks online textbooks. Superconductivity is widely regarded as one of the great scientific discoveries of the 20th century. We will discuss these basic experiments in the following chapter, but mainly this course is dealing with the theory of superconductivity. Superconductivity is characterized by a vanishing static electrical resistivity and an expulsion of the magnetic. Superconductivity cryostat precool procedure learning goals understand type i and type ii superconductors.
The pdf of doped la2xsrxcuo4 reflects tilt disorder, consistent with charge. However, in the wake of the hightemperature superconductivity revolution, one particular adaptation of hubbards original model called the tj model originally arising in the context of doped motthubbard insulators emerged as a compelling candidate for hosting a superconducting state. Fernandes here we will discuss a new ground state of the interacting electron gas. Reading list for superconductivity durham university. Superconductivity is a state of metals below a certain critical temperature 1. Mechanism of superconductivity isotope effect, tc depends on the mass of atoms t c mass of atoms constitutingthe crystallattice. This book contains detailed insights on the calculus of variations that studies the equilibrium density matrix for manyparticle fermi systems. Superconductivity is observed in a large variety of materials but, remarkably, not in some of the best normal conductors like copper, silver and gold, except at very high pressures. Introduction to superconductivity and superfluidity lecture. Superconductivity and bcs theory introduction electronphonon interaction, cooper pairs bcs wave function, energy gap and quasiparticle states predictions of the bcs theory limits of the bcs gap equation. Superconductivity a level physics teaching resources. For chemically pure and structurally perfect specimen, the superconductivity is very sharp.
A microscopic theory of superconductivity was developed in 1957 by john bardeen, leon cooper and j. Lecture 23 superconductivity ii theory 4 physics 460 f 2000 lect 23 19 persistent currents how can the current stop flowing. A free powerpoint ppt presentation displayed as a flash slide show on id. The phenomenon was discovered in 1911 by heike kamerlingh onnes kamerlingh onnes, heike, 18531. Y means material x doped with element y, t c is the highest reported transition temperature in kelvins and h c is a critical magnetic field in tesla. The theory describes superconductivity as a microscopic effect caused by a condensation of cooper pairs. Applied superconductivity lecture notes pdf 35p download book. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. There is an energy barrier for the flux to go through the superconductor to escape time for.
Theory of superconductivity advanced books classics. Schrieffer,theory of superconductivityperseus books, 1999 t. The first widelyaccepted theoretical understanding of superconductivity was advanced in 1957 by american physicists john bardeen, leon cooper, and john schrieffer above. Materials having high normal resistivities exhibit superconductivity. Department of physics of the university of florence, via g. What is a superconductor, discovery of superconductivity, meissner effect, type i superconductors, type ii superconductors, theory of superconductivity, tunneling and the josephson effect, hightemperature supercondutors and applications of superconductors. Bcs theory or bardeencooperschrieffer theory named after john bardeen, leon cooper, and john robert schrieffer is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since heike kamerlingh onness 1911 discovery.
Applied superconductivity lecture notes pdf 35p this note covers the following topics. Tinkham, introduction to superconductivity 2nd editiondover, 2004. A description of superconductivity in a little more detail than you need at a level to explain the basic concepts of a quantum mechnical phenomenon. Superconductivity article about superconductivity by the. Cambridge international science publishing 7 meadow walk great abington. The temperature at which the transition took place was called the critical temperature tc. Abrikosov, fundamentals of the theory of metalsnorthholland, 1988. Applications of superconductivity princeton university.
It occurs in a wide variety of metals and alloys, below a transition temperature tc which currently ranges up to. Expanded topic coverage includes new chapters on high temperature superconductors and nonequilibrium superconductivity. Superconductivity by joe khachan and stephen bosi the discovery of superconductors the phenomenon of superconductivity, in which the electrical resistance of certain materials completely vanishes at low temperatures, is one of the most interesting and sophisticated in condensed matter physics. Nor the nobel metals cu,ag,au neither the alcalins li, na, k, rb, cs, fr present a superconducting phase transition at least above a. Lecture notes applied superconductivity electrical. Foundations of bcs theory in this section, we lay out the theoretical grounds for bcs theory. Kamerlingh onnes in holland while studying the electrical resistance of a sample of frozen mercury as a function of temperature. John schieffers book was written for solid state physicists with more than just a casual interest in superconductivity. Superconductivity is destroyed by either raising the temperature or by applying a magnetic eld. There are two approximations taken into account in the book. Eremin, maxplanck institut fur physik komplexer systeme, dresden, germany. An overview of the impact of superconductivity on these applications is provided in table 31.
Pdf lecture note on superconductivity, solid state physics. Bcs means whether or not the superconductivity is explained within the. These initial developments rapidly evolved into an intense worldwide research effort that still persists after more than a decade, fueled by the fact that high. Superconductivity is observed in a large variety of materials but, remarkably, not in some of the best normal conductors like. In an instant, individual motions transform into a single, united movement toward the platforms or would, were it not for a few troublemakers who stumble, jostle, dither at the newsstands or refuse to make way on the escalator. The discovery of superconductivity at 30 k in the labacuo system by bednorz and muller in 1986 1 ignited an explosion of interest in high temperature superconductivity. These lecture notes introduce into the phenomenological and qualitative theory of superconductivity. Introduction to the theory of superconductivity pdf 82p this note covers the following topics. Condensed matter and qcd lectures at the university of barcelona, spain, septemberoctober 2003 roberto casalbuoni. Their theories of superconductivity became know as the bcs theory derived from the first letter of each mans last name and won them a nobel prize in 1972. Lecture notes on superconductivity a work in progress daniel arovas congjun wu department of physics university of california, san diego june 23, 2019. The table below shows some of the parameters of common superconductors.
Good conductors weak scattering from the lattice are poor superconductors low tc. An applied current is like the bell announcing the trains arrival. Jun 11, 2012 a description of superconductivity in a little more detail than you need at a level to explain the basic concepts of a quantum mechnical phenomenon. By focusing our attention on them we were able to construct a theory of superconductivity. Yet the 1955 simple facts of superconductivity capture the great qualitative change that occurs in the transition to the superconducting state. Kamerlingh onnes1911 in hg 19 nobel prize perfect diamagnetism. Bill coish introduction superconductivity refers to a complex of phenomena which are usually found to occur together. Nearly a century after its first discovery, its full commercial potential is. Superconductivity was discovered on april 8, 1911 by heike kamerlingh onnes, who was studying the resistance of solid mercury at cryogenic temperatures using the recently produced liquid helium as a refrigerant.