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BCS: 50 YEARS
edited by Leon N Cooper & Dmitri Feldman (Brown
University, USA)
588pp Nov 2010
978-981-4304-65-8(pbk): US$65 / £40 US$45.50
/ £28
2010978-981-4304-64-1: US$135 / £84 US$94.50
/ £58.80
"This exceptionally well written
and edited book celebrates and reviews the state of BCS theory and
experiment. The many chapters on the history and early experiments are
all very clear and readily accessible to a high-energy physicist,
despite containing a wealth of detail. The content continues well
beyond the usual applications of BCS theory and there are extensive
discussions of extensions of BCS, especially in the light of attempts
to understand the new high Tc superconductors … All 23 chapters are by
outstanding physicists (including many Nobel prize-winners) and all
were fascinating to read. I would highly recommend this book to anyone
and everyone as a wonderful review of a powerful unifying concept that
covers an enormous range of phenomena." -- CERN Courier
With contributions from many prominent scientists and Nobel
Prize Winners, this invaluable compilation aims to introduce students
and researchers to the origins, the impact and the current state of the
BCS theory.
Contents:
- Historical Perspectives:
- Remembrance of Superconductivity Past (L
N Cooper)
- The Road to BCS (J R Schrieffer)
- Development of Concepts in
Superconductivity (J Bardeen)
- Failed Theories of Superconductivity (J
Schmalian)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the BCS
Theory (C P Slichter)
- Superconductivity: From Electron
Interaction to Nuclear Supefluidity (D Pines)
- Developing BCS Ideas in the Former Soviet
Union (L P Gor'kov)
- BCS: The Scientific "Love of My Life" (P
W Anderson)
- Fluctuations, Tunneling and Disorder:
- SQUIDs: Then and Now (J Clarke)
- Resistance in Superconductors (B I
Halperin et al.)
- Cooper Pair Breaking (P Fulde)
- Superconductor-Insulator Transitions (A
M Goldman)
- Novel Phases of Vortices in Superconductors
(P Le Doussal)
- Breaking Translational Invariance by
Population Imbalance: The Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov States (G
Zwicknagl & J Wosnitza)
- New Superconductors:
- Predicting and Explaining Tc
and Other Properties of BCS Superconductors (M L Cohen)
- The Evolution of HTS: Tc-Experiment
Perspectives (C W Chu)
- The Evolution of High-Temperature
Superconductivity: Theory Perspective (E Abrahams)
- BCS Beyond Superconductivity:
- The Superfluid Phases of Liquid 3He:
BCS Theory (A J Leggett)
- Superfluidity in a Gas of Strongly
Interacting Fermions (W Ketterle et al.)
- BCS from Nuclei and Neutron Stars to Quark
Matter and Cold Atoms (G Baym)
- Energy Gap, Mass Gap, and Spontaneous
Symmetry Breaking (Y Nambu)
- BCS as Foundation and Inspiration: The
Transmutation of Symmetry (F Wilczek)
- From BCS to the LHC (S Weinberg)
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