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Theory of nonequilibrium superconductivity.

Author(s) : KOPNIN N.

Type of monograph: Book

Summary

This book, published in the "International Series of Monographs on Physics", is the first text on the modern theory of superconductivity. It deals with the behaviour of superconductors in external fields varying in time, and with transport phenomena in superconductors. The book starts with the fundamentals of the first-principle, microscopic theory of superconductivity, and guides the reader through the modern theoretical analysis directly to applications of the theory to practical problems. The reader will learn about the methods of quantum field theory applied to nonstationary superconductivity in their most advanced formulation, namely about the so-called semi-classical version of the real-time Green's function technique applied to the celebrated BCS (Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer) model of superconductivity. A considerable part of the book is devoted to vortex dynamics, dealing with the behaviour of superconductors in the most practical situation when they carry electric currents in the presence of a magnetic field. Extract from the table of contents: Green functions in the BCS theory (introduction; Green functions; the BCS model; superconducting alloys); quasiclassical method (general principles of the quasiclassical approximation; quasiclassical methods in stationary problems and for layered superconductors); nonequilibrium superconductivity (nonstationary theory; quasiclassical method for nonstationary phenomena; kinetic equations; the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory); vortex dynamics (time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau analysis; vortex dynamics in dirty and in clean superconductors; Boltzmann kinetic equation).

Details

  • Original title: Theory of nonequilibrium superconductivity.
  • Record ID : 2006-0487
  • Languages: English
  • Publication: Oxford University Press - United kingdom/United kingdom
  • Publication date: 2001
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  • ISBN: 0198507887
  • Source: Source: n. 110; 342 p. (16 x 24); fig.; ref.; index; GBP 69.95.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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