Superconductivity

Book Details

• Author: J. B. Ketterson

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

• Language: English

• Edition: Not specified

• ISBN: 9780521565622

• Pages: 497

• Cover: Paperback

• Dimensions: 9.7 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches

• Format: Illustrated (80 b/w illustrations, 5 tables)

About The Book

Superconductivity by J. B. Ketterson is a comprehensive graduate-level text that explores the complex and fascinating world of superconductivity, an area of intense research worldwide. This well-structured book is divided into three sections, each addressing a fundamental aspect of superconductivity. The first section covers the London, Pippard, and Ginzburg-Landau theories, providing insights into phenomena such as surface energies, vorticity, intermediate and mixed states, and boundaries in superconductors. It also discusses the upper critical field in bulk, thin film, and anisotropic superconductors, along with surface superconductivity.

The second section of the book focuses on the microscopic theory of Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer, using this theory to explain quasi-particle tunneling and the Josephson effects from a microscopic perspective. The final section delves into non-uniform superconductors, employing the Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach, which allows for the extraction of important results without resorting to Green's function methods. This section provides invaluable insights for those working with non-uniform systems.

With 497 pages of in-depth coverage, this text is designed for graduate students and research workers in the fields of superconductivity, superfluidity, many-body theory, and quantum liquids. It combines theoretical rigor with practical examples, making it an indispensable resource for anyone involved in advanced studies of superconductivity.

Review

"I can thoroughly recommend [this book]. It is well written and well structured. If you need a text to bring together the physics of most of the important results in superconductivity, this is the text to slay the dragon of dissipated sources."
— Dr. D. P. Hampshire, Contemporary Physics