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Klappentext The discoveries of new superconducting materials! most of them during the last 30 years! have served as the context for further developments in theory which continue to the present. In many of these cases! the observations of superconductivity in new materials were completely unexpected. This includes even the most visible progress! the discovery of high-Tc superconductivity in copper oxides. This book presents superconductivity in this materials context and displays some of the underlying simplicity in the materials record that fueled the theoretical developments. Superconductivity provides a window from which to view the nature of electrically conducting materials. The level! while not advanced! allows the serious reader to access the current developments in the literature. Zusammenfassung Addresses the exciting developments of superconductivity after 1980. This title demonstrates that progress in superconductivity is to a large extent due to progress in materials synthesis and characterization. It offers a gateway to the developments in the literature.
List of contents
Preface
1. History and Introduction
2. Notes on microscopic theory of superconductivity
3. Superconductivity at the Border with Magnetism
4. High-Tc Superconductivity
5. Organic Superconductivity: A mouse may be of service to a lion
6. Recent Developments (after 2000)
7. The Future of Superconductivity viewed through a Cloudy Crystal Ball
Report
"Zachary Fisk and Hans-Rudolf Ott's edited volume provides a timely review of this field and contains some wonderful articles that chart different aspects of the search for new superconducting materials. For me, a particular highlight was Fisk's own contribution on superconductivity on the border of magnetism in which he outlines lucidly and clearly exactly how the phenomena compete and why the marginal stability of the 4f shell is so special in leading to Kondo behaviour and the heavy fermion phenomenon."-- Contemporary Physics
