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Handbook of High -Temperature Superconductivity

Theory and Experiment

  • Edited by J. Robert Schrieffer, co-recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for the "Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory" of superconductivity
  • Contributions by the world's leading authorities on high temperature superconductivity
  • Serves as the authoritative, comprehensive reference work in this important field
  • Covers both theoretical and applied aspects of high-temperature superconductors
  • Four-color illustrations throughout the Handbook to enhance the text

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. Tunneling Measurements of the Cuprate Superconductors

    • J. R. Kirtley, F. Tafuri
    Pages 19-86
  3. What Tc can Teach About Superconductivity

    • T. H. Geballe, G. Koster
    Pages 325-344
  4. High-Tc Superconductors: Thermodynamic Properties

    • R. A. Fisher, J. E. Gordon, N. E. Phillips
    Pages 345-397
  5. Normal State Transport Properties

    • N. E. Hussey
    Pages 399-425
  6. High-Pressure Effects

    • J. S. Schilling
    Pages 427-462
  7. Superconductivity in Organic Conductors

    • J. S. Brooks
    Pages 463-493
  8. Numerical Studies of the 2D Hubbard Model

    • D. J. Scalapino
    Pages 495-526
  9. How Optimal Inhomogeneity Produces High Temperature Superconductivity

    • Steven A. Kivelson, Eduardo Fradkin
    Pages 570-596
  10. Superconducting States on the Border of Itinerant Electron Magnetism

    • Emma Pugh, Siddharth Saxena, Gilbert Lonzarich
    Pages 597-614
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 615-627

About this book

Since the 1980s, a general theme in the study of high-temperature superconductors has been to test the BCS theory and its predictions against new data. At the same time, this process has engendered new physics, new materials, and new theoretical frameworks. Remarkable advances have occurred in sample quality and in single crystals, in hole and electron doping in the development of sister compounds with lower transition temperatures, and in instruments to probe structure and dynamics. Handbook of High-Temperature Superconductvity is a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of both experimental and theoretical methodologies by the the world's top leaders in the field. The Editor, Nobel Laureate J. Robert Schrieffer, and Associate Editor James S. Brooks, have produced a unified, coherent work providing a global view of high-temperature superconductivity covering the materials, the relationships with heavy-fermion and organic systems, and the many formidable challenges that remain. 

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From the reviews:

"This handbook is devoted to recent advances in the study of various important processes occurring in high-temperature superconductivity. … This book is strongly recommended to researchers in Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics interested in nonlinear phenomena but it may be also useful and comprehensive for a broader community of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. … the present book is one of the most important works in its field that have been written in the last decade." (Vicentiu D. Radulescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1122 (24), 2007)

Editors and Affiliations

  • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

    J. Robert Schrieffer

  • Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

    James S. Brooks

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