Keywords:
High temperature superconductivity-Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book provides a broad survey of high temperature superconductivity, discussing the adaptations of experimental and theoretical techniques and methods that take advantage of the revolutionary properties of high temperature superconductors. Distinguished engineers, chemists, and experimental and theoretical physicists introduce their own particu.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (421 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781000445268
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6685632
DDC:
537.6/23
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- An introduction to superconductivity and passive microwave devices -- 1 Superconductivity before 1986 -- 2 BCS Theory -- 3 Passive microwave devices -- Flux quantisation -- mixed states -- Josephson effect -- SQUIDs -- 1 The superconducting macroscopic wave function -- 2 The Meissner effect and flux quantisation -- 3 Experimental confirmation of flux quantum -- 4 Phase coherence across an HTC-LTC boundary -- 5 Flux quantisation and the mixed state -- 6 Giant flux lines in the granular mixed state -- 7 The Josephson effect -- 8 Energetics and dynamics of Josephson junctions -- 9 The rf SQUID -- 10 The dc SQUID -- Critical currents in cuprate superconductors -- 1 Critical currents - basic concepts -- 2 Critical currents in oxide superconductors -- 3 Measurement techniques -- 4 Applications -- Chemistry of oxide superconductors -- 1 Valency considerations in oxide superconductors -- 2 Survey of oxide superconductors -- 3 Defects and inhomogeneities -- 4 Synthesis of oxide superconductors -- Transition metal oxides and high temperature superconductors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 3d transition metal compounds -- 3 Multiplets and systematics -- 4 Model Hamiltoiiiait parameters for the liigh-Tc materials -- 5 Low energy scale states -- Optical properties of insulators and metals with copper oxide planes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials -- 3 Insulating state -- 4 Metallic state -- 5 Superconducting state -- Experimental studies of magnetic properties of cuprates -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experimental techniques and probes -- 3 Magnetic semiconducting phases -- 4 Local susceptibilities in the metallic state -- 5 Spin dynamics in the metallic state -- The spin polaron model and the comparison with liquid helium -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The BCS model -- 3 The Polaron model.
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4 Spin polarons and bipolarons -- 5 Two mechanisms of superconductivity -- 6 Electrical properties above Tc -- 7 La2-xSrxCuO4 and La1-xSrxVO3-a comparison -- 8 Interaction between the carriers -- comparison with superfluid helium 4 -- 9 Persistent currents -- 10 Tunnelling characteristics -- 11 Angle-resolved photoemission -- 12 Two or three dimensions? -- 13 Effect of pressure -- 14 Charge fluctuations -- 15 Thermal conductivity -- 16 Spin fluctuations -- 17 Magnetic susceptibility -- 18 Far infra-red reflectivity -- 19 Note added at the Summer School -- Strong correlations and high temperature superconductivity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Models of the copper oxide planes -- 3 A one-dimensional copper oxide model -- 4 Phase separation -- 5 A droplet model of high-temperature superconductors -- Introduction to the theory of strongly correlated electrons -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 1-band Hubbard model -- 3 The t-J model and its relation to the cuprates -- 4 The Hubbard and t-J models in one-dimension -- 5 The t-J model in two-dimensions -- 6 Novel Fermi liquids -- The quantum chemistry view of high temperature superconductors -- 1 Introduction - classes of systems -- 2 Cu-Cu coupling of undoped cuprates -- 3 Doping of cuprates -- 4 Magnon pairing theory of HTC superconductors -- 5 Applications.
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