NEW SUPERCONDUCTORS: FROM GRANULAR TO HIGH TC

by Guy Deutscher

How new are the high Tc superconductors, as compared to the conventional low Tc ones? In what sense are these oxides different from regular metals in their normal state? How different is the mechanism for high Tc superconductivity from the well-known electron-phonon interaction that explains so well superconductivity in metals and alloys? What are the implications of the new features of the high Tc oxides for their practical applications? This interesting book aims to provide some answers to those questions, drawing particularly on similarities between the high Tc oxides and granular superconductors, which also present a short coherence length and a small superfluid density.

244 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

There is more than one author with this name.
For the linguistics professor, please see: Guy Deutscher.

Professor Guy Deutscher is based in the School of Physics and Astronomy of Tel Aviv University, Israel.