The Vortex State (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792329718)

An introduction to superfluidity and vortices in superfluid 4Helium.- Anisotropic superconductors: fundamentals of vortices in layered superconductors.- Pinning, fluctuations and melting of superconducting vortex arrays.- Two-dimensional superfluids.- Short coherence length superconductors.- Magnetic decoration studies of flux line lattices in the cuprate superconductors.- Flux creep and ac measurements in superconductors.- Pinning and dynamics of magnetic vortices.- Pinning and correlations in the vortex phase.- Vortex dynamics in superfluids and superconductors.- Experimental observation of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition.- Fermi liquid theory of non-S-wave superconductivity.- Flux motion by quantum tunneling.- Layered superconductors: do vortices interact with the crystal lattice?.- Vortex state and dimensionality.- Enhancement of superconductivity by photoexcitation.- Surface ESR probing of superconductors.

Author: Nicole Bontemps,NATO Advanced Study Institute on Vortice
ISBN-10: 0792329716
ISBN-13: 9780792329718
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/30/1994
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d