Time and location:

• Time: Mon Wed 9:00 - 10:20 a.m.
• Place: 158 Loomis Laboratory

Instructor:

• A.J. Leggett (2113 ESB) Office hour 2.30 - 3.30 p.m. Tue

TA:

• Victor Vakaryuk (4119 ESB) Office hour 10.30 - 11.30 a.m. Wed

• Course announcement

• Syllabus and schedule of lectures (provisional) [assessment part updated]

• Problem Sheet 1
• Problem Sheet 2
• Problem Sheet 3
• Problem Sheet 4

• No typed lecture notes for lectures 1-4.
• Lecture 5. Fundamental Ideas of BCS Theory
• Lecture 6. Quantitative Development of BCS Theory
• Lecture 7. Thermodynamic and response properties of superconductors (other than EM)
• Lecture 8. Microscopic Properties of BCS Superconductors (cont.)
• Lecture 9. Superconducting alloys: electrodynamics of clean and dirty superconductors
• Lecture 10. Ginzburg-Landau Theory: Simple Applications
• Lecture 11. The Bogoliubov-de Gennes and Andreev Equations: Andreev Reflection
• Lecture 12. Magnetic impurity and other pair-breaking effects
• Lecture 13. The Josephson Effect
• Lecture 14. The stability of supercurrents: Fluctuation effects
• (Mini-) Lecture 15. Miscellaneous topics in BCS theory

• Lecture 1. Non-BCS Superconductivity: Diagnostics
• Lecture 2. Non-cuprate exotics I: BKBO, MgB2, alkali fullerides
• Lecture 3. Non-cuprateExotics II: Organics, Heavy-fermions, Ruthenates
• Lecture 4. The cuprate superconductors: generalities (composition, structure, phase diagram ...)
• Lecture 5. Normal-state Properties: Optimal Doping: ( + overdoped regime)
• Lecture 6. The phase diagram: the pseudogap regime. Systematics of Tc .
• Lecture 7. Superconducting-state properties (static + transport)
• Lecture 8. Superconducting state II: Spectroscopic probes. Preliminary overview of the experimental situation
• Lecture 9. What do we know for sure about the cuprate superconductors?
• Lecture 10. What do we know for sure about the cuprate superconductors? II. Symmetry of the order parameter.
• Lecture 11. Microscopic Theories of Cuprate Superconductivity: A Smorgasbord.
• Lecture 12. Where is the energy saved?
• Lecture 13. Non-cuprate exotics III: The ferropnictide (FeAs) superconductors