Teaching / Lehre

Superconductivity

Instructors: apl. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jakob
Shortname: 08.128.7013
Course No.: 08.128.7013
Course Type: Vorlesung/Übung

Requirements / organisational issues

Knowledge at the level of the module in experimental physics: „Physics of condensed matter“ is required.

Anwesenheitspflicht

For a successful participation an active involvement in the exercises is required.

Digital teaching

On-site lecture time, can be adjusted according to student needs.

Recommended reading list

Specialized textbooks of condensed matter physics;
Textbooks of superconductivity;
Tinkham: Introduction to Superconductivity;
Kleiner+Buckel: Superconductivity,
specialized materials, summer school lectures, research papers

The students should get acquainted with the physical foundations of superconductivity. In particular they should understand how the independent individual electrons in a solid condense into a macroscopic quantum state, what is the symmetry of the order parameter, and how the order parameter is determined. An understanding of the transport properties of the superconducting ground state shall be achieved with respect to the possibilities of dissipation free transport and the realization of superconducting quantum phenomena as ultrasensitive sensors or qubits. In one or several special topics a deeper understanding of a subfield of current research in solid state physics shall be achieved.

The concise topics treated are: electrons in solids, BCS-theory for Cooper pair formation and condensation in the ground state, phase transition and transport properties Ginzburg-Landau description, type I and type II superconductors, the Josephson effect and its applications in ultra sensitive sensors and as voltage normal, critical currents in superconductors, superconducting magnets, superconducting qubits, high temperature superconductivity, transport in two-dimensional systems, related quantum effects as Quantum Hall effect.

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