Theory Of Superconductivity / Edition 1

by J. Robert Schrieffer

Overview

Theory of Superconductivity is primarily intended to serve as a background for reading the literature in which detailed applications of the microscopic theory of superconductivity are made to specific problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738201207
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	01/22/1971
Series:	Advanced Books Classics Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

J. Robert Schrieffer received his B.S. from MIT. He continued his studies at the University of Illinois, where he along with Professors John Bardeen and Leon Cooper developed the theory of superconductivity. He continued his work as a fellow at the University of Birmingham and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Following work at the Universities of Chicago and Illinois, Schrieffer won the Nobel Prize, in 1972, for his work in superconductivity, sharing the honor with Bardeen and Cooper. He was a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is now at the University of Florida, Tallahassee.

Table of Contents

Advanced Book Classics — Preface — Preface to the Revised Printing — Introduction — The Pairing Theory of Superconductivity — Applications of the Pairing Theory — Electron-Ion System — Field-Theoretic Methods in the Many-Body Problem — Elementary Excitations in Normal Metals — Field-Theoretic Methods Applied to Superconductivity — Electromagnetic Properties of Superconductors — Conclusion — Second-Quantization Formalism — Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena from Pairing in Superconductors — Microscopic Quantum Interference Effects in the Theory of Superconductivity — Electron–Phonon Interactions and Superconductivity

Editorial Reviews

Schrieffer, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, explains his theory of superconductivity. Fundamentals of the microscopic theory of superconductivity are stressed as a means of providing the reader with a framework for the literature in which detailed applications of the microscopic theory are made to specific problems. A graduate course in quantum theory is required for understanding. First published in 1964, this reprint of a 1983 revised edition includes an appendix containing Nobel Lectures in superconductivity from 1972, delivered by Schrieffer and two co-developers of the theory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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