Superconductivity of Metals and Alloys

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Editors Foreword
 Dedication
 Special Preface
 Preface
 Table of Contents
 Chapter 1: Fundamental Properties
 1.1 A New Condensed State
 1.2 Diamagnetism
 1.3 Absence of Low Energy Excitations
 1.4 Two Kinds of Superconductors
 Chapter 2: Magnetic Properties of First Kind Superconductors
 2.1 Critical Field of a Long Cylinder
 2.2 Penetration Depths
 2.3 Magnetic Properties of a Sample of Arbitrary Shape: Intermediate State
 Chapter 3: Magnetic Properties of Second Kind Superconductors
 3.1 Magnetization Curves of a Long Cylinder. 3.2 Vortex State: Microscopic Description3.3 Nonequilibrium Properties
 Chapter 4: Description of the Condensed State
 4.1 Instability of the Normal State in the Presence of an Attractive Interaction
 4.2 Origin of the Attractive Interaction
 4.3 Ground State and Elementary Excitations
 4.4 Calculations at Finite Temperature
 Chapter 5: The Self-Consistent Field Method
 5.1 The Bogolubov Equations
 5.2 Theorems on the Pair Potential and the Excitation Spectrum
 5.3 The Meissner Effect in Metals and Alloys
 Chapter 6: Phenomenological Landau-Ginsburg Equations
 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Construction of the Free Energy6.3 Equilibrium Equations
 6.4 The Two Characteristic Lengths
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 6.7 Structure of the Vortex Phase in Strong Fields (H~HC2)
 Chapter 7: Microscopic Analysis of the Landau-Ginsburg Equations
 7.1 Linearized Self-Consistency Equation
 7.2 Landau-Ginsburg Equations
 7.3 Surface Problems in the Landau-Ginsburg Region
 Chapter 8: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields and of Magnetic Impurities
 8.1 Relation between Transition Temperature and Time-Reversal Properties. 8.2 Ergodic versus Nonergodic Behaviorâ#x80
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Gapless Superconductivity8.3 Dirty Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields
 Index.