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Fakultät Physik
Lecture

Superconductivity

Lecturer Prof. Dr. Zhe Wang
Language English
Module PHY6212
Course content Fundamental Properties of Superconductors: vanishing of electrical resistance, perfect diamagnetism, flux quantization, quantum interference
Superconducting materials: superconducting elements, alloys, MgB2, heavy-fermion superconductors, high-Tc cupper oxides, iron-based superconductors, organic superconductors
Cooper pairing: Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory, conventional superconductivity, unconventional superconductivity, energy gap, electromagnetic response
Thermodynamics: Ginzburg-Landau theory, Type-I superconductors in a magnetic field, Type-II superconductors in a magnetic field, fluctuations above Tc, states outside thermodynamic equilibrium
Applications of superconductors
Moodle link https://moodle.tu-dortmund.de/course/view.php?id=26888