TIME AND LOCATION:
Monday and Wednesday, 2:10-3:30 pm, Roessler 158.
We will spend the first five weeks of this course reviewing
the fundamentals of superconductivity: Basic properties of
a superconductor and how they contrast with a normal metal,
London Theory, and BCS theory. In discussing the latter topic we
will include a general introduction to second quantization
and model Hamiltonians, and solve the BCS Hamiltonian both using
the canonical transformation approach as well as the equation
of motion method for the Green's function.
In the second five weeks we will go through different classes
of superconductors, including the cuprates, heavy fermion systems,
MgB2, and the iron-pnictides. The emphasis here will be on
key experimental results and on simple theoretical pictures,
eg the possibility that exchange of spin fluctuations replaces phonons
as the "glue" in the cuprates.
A FEW RESOURCES:
Hahnbidt Rhee
"Iron-Chalcogenide Superconductors" (substitute lecture)
Anthony J. Leggett
"What DO we know about high Tc?"
P. Monthoux, A.V. Balatsky, D. Pines
"Weak-Coupling Theory of high-temperature superconductivity in
the antiferromagnetically correlated copper oxides"
S.R. White, D.J. Scalapino, R.L. Sugar,
N.E. Bickers, and R.T. Scalettar
"Attractive and Repulsive Pairing Vertices for the
2D Hubbard Model"
C.C. Tsuei etal.
"Pairing Symmetry and Flux Quantization in a Tricrystal
Superconducting Ring of YBa2Cu3O7-d"
M.D. Johannes
(Michelle is a former student of Prof. Pickett)
"Microscopic origin of magnetism and magnetic interactions in
ferropnictides"