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Lecture 9 of 22Week 3: Unconventional Superconductivity
Unconventional Superconductivity, Uemura plot, High-Tc superconductivity, d-wave pairing, ARPES
Prof. Saurabh Basu · IIT Guwahati
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- A Brief Course On Superconductivity, IIT Guwahati (at NPTEL)
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All the lectures
- Historical introduction of superconductivity
- Meissner effect, Electrodynamics of Superconductors, coherence length and penetration depth
- Electron Pairing, Basics of BCS Theory
- BCS ground state, variational calculation, expression for Tc
- Order parameter, Free energy functional, Ginzburg-Landau (GL) Theory, GL equations
- London Equations, Flux quantization
- Thermodynamic properties of superconductors, specific heat
- Experimental determination of Superconducting properties
- Unconventional Superconductivity, Uemura plot, High-Tc superconductivity, d-wave pairing, ARPES
- Singlet and triplet states of two s =1/2 , magnetic Hamiltonian
- t-J model, discrete symmetry groups, example square lattice
- Cuprate Superconductors, electron vs hole doped superconductors
- Non-Fermi Liquid Theory, Adiabatic continuity
- Quasiparticle lifetime, breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in cuprate superconductors
- Josephson junctions, Josephson equations
- AC Josephson effect, Superconducting Quantum Interference devices(SQUID) and its applications
- SQUID: RF SQUID, DC SQUID, Applications of Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
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- Live Session 22-02-2022
- Live Session 14-03-2024
- Live Session 24-02-2025