New Superconductors: From Granular to High Tc: Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9789812838896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 350 str.

Guy Deutscher

Opis

How new are the high T_c superconductors, as compared to the conventional low T_c ones? In what sense are these oxides different from regular metals in their normal state? How different is the mechanism for high T_c superconductivity from the well-known electron-phonon interaction that explains so well superconductivity in metals and alloys? What are the implications of the new features of the high T_c oxides for their practical applications? This interesting book aims to provide some answers to those questions, drawing particularly on similarities between the high T_c oxides and granular superconductors, which also present a short coherence length, a small superfluid density and an inhomogeneous structure.