Superconductivity

A Very Short Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-954090-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 111 mm x 174 mm, Gewicht: 147 g

Reihe: Very Short Introductions

Superconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today. Outlining the history of its discovery, and the race to understand its many mysterious and counter-intuitive phenomena, this Very Short Introduction explains in accessible terms the theories that have been developed, and how they have influenced other areas of science, including the Higgs boson of particle physics and ideas about the early Universe. It is an engaging and
informative account of a fascinating scientific detective story, and an intelligible insight into some deep and beautiful ideas of physics.

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Zielgruppe

Readers of popular science, and physics students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blundell, Stephen J

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Halbleiter- und Supraleiterphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: What is superconductivity?
2: The quest for low temperatures
3: The discovery of superconductivity
4: Expulsion
5: Pairing up
6: Symmetry
7: Before the breakthrough
8: High-temperature superconductivity
9: The making of the new superconductors
10: What have superconductors ever done for us?
Dramatis personae
Further Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Blundell, Stephen J
Stephen J. Blundell, Professor of Physics, Oxford University Department of Physics and Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford

Stephen Blundell did his undergraduate degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics at Peterhouse, Cambridge and his Ph. D. in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. He moved to the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford to take up an SERC research fellowship, followed by a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, where he began research in organic magnets and superconductors using muon-spin rotation. In 1997 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in the Physics
Department and a Tutorial Fellowship at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was subsequently promoted to Reader and then Professor. He was a joint winner of the Daiwa-Adrian Prize in 1999 for his work on organic magnets. He has previously published Magnetism in Condensed Matter, (OUP 2001); and Concepts in
Thermal Physics, (OUP 2006, with K.M. Blundell).