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Instructor: Prof. Oskar Vafek E-mail: vafek’at’magnet.fsu.edu Phone:
(850) 644-5076 PHY6937 Meeting Times Office Hours: by appointment (Keen 606
or NHMFL) Reference texts J. R. Schrieffer, Theory Of Superconductivity M. Tinkham, Introduction to Superconductivity R.D. Parks, Superconductivity vols. 1 and 2 J. B. Ketterson
and S. N. Song, Superconductivity |
PHY 6937 Superconductivity
and Superfluidity Spring 2011
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Course Description PHY6937
is a one semester advanced graduate level course. Its aim is to introduce
concepts and theoretical techniques for the description of superconductors and
superfluids. This course is a natural continuation
of the "many-body" course PHY5670 and will build on the logical framework
introduced therein, i.e. broken symmetry and adiabatic continuity. The course
will cover a range of topics, such as the connection between the
phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau and the microscpic BCS theory, Migdal-Eliashberg
treatment of phonon mediated superconductivity, unconventional superconductivity,
superfluidity in He-4 and He-3, and Kosterlitz-Thouless theory of two dimensional superfluids. The key component of the course is the
collaborative student contribution to the course Wiki-textbook. |