Physics Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Physics 598
Superconductivity, Ancient and Modern, Part 1.
Fall 2015
General information
Class Time and location:
Time: Mon Wed 1:00 - 2:20 p.m.
Place: 276 Loomis Laboratory
Instructor: A.J. Leggett (illinois email aleggett), Office hour 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Mondays, 2113 ESB
TA: Di Zhou (illinois email dizhou2), office hour 3:00-4:00 p.m. Wednesdays, 4105 ESB
Announcements
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Makeup lecture on Friday 23 October, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. in room 222 Loomis.
Class is cancelled Wednesday October 21st
Class is cancelled Monday October 19th
There will be a makeup lecture on Friday 9 October, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. in room 276 Loomis.
Course announcement
Syllabus and schedule of lectures (provisional)
Problem Sets
Problem Set 1
Due Mon. 14 Sept.
Problem Set 2
Due Mon. 28 Sept.
Problem Set 3
Due Mon. 12 Oct.
Problem Set 4
Due Mon. 26 Oct.
Lecture Notes
Lecture 2
Phenomenology of (classic) superconductivity
Lecture 3
Phenomenological theory of the EM properties of superconductors
Lecture 4
Recap: normal metals and the electron-phonon interaction
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: electromagnetic response of clean and dirty superconductors
Lecture 10
Ginzburg-Landau Thoeory: 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
Lecture 15
Miscellaneous topics in BCS theory
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