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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257441003321

Titolo

Connectivity and Superconductivity / / edited by Jorge Berger, Jacob Rubinstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000

ISBN

3-540-44532-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2000.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 258 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs, , 0940-7677 ; ; 62

Disciplina

537.6/23/0151

Soggetti

Physics

Superconductivity

Superconductors

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity

Applications of Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

In the Memory of Shlomo Alexander -- Topological Considerations in Superconductivity -- The de Gennes-Alexander Theory of Superconducting Micronetworks -- Nodal Sets, Multiplicity and Superconductivity in Non-simply Connected Domains -- Connectivity and Flux Confinement Phenomena in Nanostructured Superconductors -- Zero Set of the Order Parameter, Especially in Rings -- Persistent Currents in Ginzburg-Landau Models -- On the Normal/Superconducting Phase Transition in the Presence of Large Magnetic Fields -- On the Numerical Solution of the Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Equations in Multiply Connected Domains -- Formation of Vortex-Antivortex Pairs -- The Order Parameter as a Macroscopic Quantum Wavefunction -- The Ehrenberg-Siday-Aharonov-Bohm Effect -- Connectivity and Superconductivity in Inhomogeneous Structures.

Sommario/riassunto

The motto of connectivity and superconductivity is that the solutions of



the Ginzburg--Landau equations are qualitatively influenced by the topology of the boundaries, as in multiply-connected samples. Special attention is paid to the "zero set", the set of the positions (also known as "quantum vortices") where the order parameter vanishes. The effects considered here usually become important in the regime where the coherence length is of the order of the dimensions of the sample. It takes the intuition of physicists and the awareness of mathematicians to find these new effects. In connectivity and superconductivity, theoretical and experimental physicists are brought together with pure and applied mathematicians to review these surprising results. This volume is intended to serve as a reference book for graduate students and researchers in physics or mathematics interested in superconductivity, or in the Schrödinger equation as a limiting case of the Ginzburg--Landau equations.