Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales
Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales

Author: T. Riste

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9401119082

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Systems with competing energy scales are widespread and exhibit rich and subtle behaviour, although their systematic study is a relatively recent activity. This text presents lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject, particularly with regard to phase transitions and dynamics, at an advanced tutorial level. Both general and specific aspects are considered, with competitions having several origins; differences in intrinsic interactions, interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic effects, such as geometry and disorder; irreversibility and non-equilibration. Among the specific physical application areas are supercooled liquids and glasses, high-temperature superconductors, flux or vortex pinning and motion, charge density waves, domain growth and coarsening, and electron solidification.

Layered Superconductors
Layered Superconductors

Author: Richard A. Klemm

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 0199593310

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This book provides a comparison of the different chemical structures, normal state properties, and simplest superconducting properties of all known classes of layered superconductors. It introduces the three phenomenological models used to describe such systems, and will guide young researchers hoping to produce a room-temperature superconductor.

Introduction to Unconventional Superconductivity
Introduction to Unconventional Superconductivity

Author: V.P. Mineev

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1999-09-21

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9789056992095

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Unconventional superconductivity (or superconductivity with a nontrivial Cooper pairing) is believed to exist in many heavy-fermion materials as well as in high temperature superconductors, and is a subject of great theoretical and experimental interest. The remarkable progress achieved in this field has not been reflected in published monographs and textbooks, and there is a gap between current research and the standard education of solid state physicists in the theory of superconductivity. This book is intended to meet this information need and includes the authors' original results.

The Physics of Superconductors
The Physics of Superconductors

Author: Karl-Heinz Bennemann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 974

ISBN-13: 3642556752

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This is the first volume of a comprehensive two-volume treatise on superconductivity that represents the first such publication since the earlier work by R. Parks. It systematically reviews the basic physics and recent advances in the field. Leading researchers describe the state of the art in conventional phonon-induced superconductivity, high-Tc superconductivity, and novel superconductivity. After an introduction and historical overview, the leaders in the special fields of research give a comprehensive survey of the basics and the state of the art in chapters covering the entire field of superconductivity, including conventional and unconventional superconductors. Important new results are reported in a manner intended to stimulate further research. Numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables make this book especially useful as a reference work for students, teachers, and researchers. The second volume treats novel superconductors.

The Physics of Phase Transitions
The Physics of Phase Transitions

Author: Pierre Papon

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-27

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 3540333908

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This book occupies an important place at the crossroads of several fields central to materials sciences. The expanded second edition incorporates new developments in the states of matter physics, and includes end-of-chapter problems and complete answers.

Low Dimensional Properties Of Solids: Nobel Jubilee Symposium - Proceedings Of The Nobel Jubilee Symposium
Low Dimensional Properties Of Solids: Nobel Jubilee Symposium - Proceedings Of The Nobel Jubilee Symposium

Author: T Claeson

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1993-03-08

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9814553751

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Rarely do so many leading physicists attend one symposium. No less than nine Nobel laureates and some 40 other top researchers gathered for this symposium and this book contains the material presented in invited talks as well as the posters. The 34 papers are organised into three groups corresponding to various aspects of low dimensional physics of solids.