Quantum Liquids: Bose Condensation and Cooper Pairing in Condensed-Matter Systems

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-852643-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 929 g

Reihe: Oxford Graduate Texts

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter systems. Eschewing advanced formal methods, the author uses simple concepts and arguments to account for the various qualitatively new phenomena which occur in Bose-condensed and
Cooper-paired systems, including but not limited to the spectacular macroscopic phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity. The physical systems discussed include liquid 4-He, the BEC alkali gases, "classical" superconductors, superfluid 3-He, "exotic" superconductors and the recently
stabilized Fermi alkali gases. The book should be accessible to beginning graduate students in physics or advanced undergraduates.

Zielgruppe

Graduate students and professionals in physics, theoretical physics, condensed matter and experimental physics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leggett, Anthony James

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Physik unter extremen Bedingungen (Vakuum, Hohe Drücke)
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Atom- und Molekülphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction:quantum statistics,Bose-Einstein condensation and Cooper pairing.
2: Bose-Einstein condensation:its definition,origin,occurrence and consequences.
3: Liquid 4-He.
4: The Bose alkali gases.
5: Classical superconductivity.
6: Superfluid 3-He
7: Cuprate superconductivity.
8: Miscellaneous topics.

Über Autor(innen)

Leggett, Anthony James
Anthony James Leggett, Macarthur Professor and Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor A.J.Leggett
Macarthur Professor and Professor of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anthony J.Leggett was born in London, England in March 1938. He attended Balliol College, Oxford where he majored in Literae Humaniores (classical languages and literature, philosophy and Greco-Roman history), and thereafter Merton College, Oxford where he took a second undergraduate degree in Physics. He completed a
D.Phil.(Ph.D.) degree in theoretical physics under the supervision of D.ter Haar. After postdoctoral research in Urbana, Kyoto and elsewhere he joined the faculty of the University of Sussex (UK) in 1967, being promoted to Reader in 1971 and to Professor in 1978. In 1983 he became John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position he currently holds. His principal research interests lie in the areas of condensed matter physics,
particularly high-temperature superconductivity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.